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...sort of Thomas Wolfe cub, Author Salamanca, 34, has the Wolfeian flaws of logorrhea, overintensity and repetition. But he has some of the Wolfeian virtues as well: his characters-Christian and Uncle Rolfe and the rest-come thunderously alive; he can tumultously evoke the rites of spring; he is equally sure in dealing with the frenzies of a crazed stallion or the moiling mind of an adolescent. What is needed is an editor...
...school. They bought a stake in a soft drink company, swapped their interest for a Cleveland chemical company, whose earnings they doubled in ten months. Then in 1955 they spotted Pittsburgh's ailing Fort Pitt beer company, and took it over with all the eclat of two cub scouts finding the Northwest Passage...
...drought came to McGovern's help. Result: McGovern appears to have a handy lead, rapping Ezra Benson while Republican Foss tries to avoid taking a stand one way or another on Benson. But Foss, World War II Marine Corps ace, has yet to warm up his Piper Super Cub and take off on the kind of whirlwind campaign that won him the governorship...
Early Years. Son of gregarious Ohio Republican James Garfield Stewart, sometime mayor of Cincinnati (1938-47), now a state supreme court judge. After prepping at Hotchkiss. young Potter wavered between law and journalism at Yale, was chairman of the Yale Daily News, tried a summertime stint as a cub reporter on the Taft family's Cincinnati Times-Star before finally deciding on law. Graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa (1937)) ne spent a year studying international law at Cambridge University on a Henry Fellowship (awarded to four U.S. college graduates a year), then graduated from Yale Law School...
Smith's reaction to getting the Treasury beat was to tear into the recession news with the seriousness and energy of a cub reporter. He turned out interpretative pieces, got a clear beat on one month's unemployment figures when they were the hottest news in town, was among the first to predict that the federal deficit for this fiscal year would be high (current Bureau of the Budget estimate: $12.2 billion...