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...101st Airborne Division* at Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, Taylor earned the sobriquet "Mr. Attack." During the hearings, he proved that he is also a master of cool, impenetrable defense. Under heavy fire from committee members, Taylor, crisply handsome in dark grey suit and TV-blue shirt, held his ground with the grace and sang-froid of a man whose intellect and experience were more than a match for his august adversaries...
...Elbow Room. The U.S. unit that found the going toughest was the 2nd Brigade of the 25th Infantry Division, newly arrived from Hawaii. Assigned to the Cu Chi plain 20 miles northwest of Saigon, the brigade found itself encamped atop a veritable anthill of Viet Cong tunnels, in choking grey dust sometimes two feet deep. Enemy snipers and 60-and 81-mm. mortar crews penned the 4,000 men of the 2nd inside a perimeter only a mile long and 4,000 ft. wide-normally base-camp elbow room for only an 800-man battalion. Passage...
...stopped by at Manhattan's Kootz Gallery to see his current exhibition, 21 large oils, all but two painted within the last year. A pretty, 13-year-old schoolgirl, feasting her eyes on the bright rectangles aswim in impastes of Christmas-color oils, turned to the great, grey, shambling man and asked timidly, "Aren't you Mr. Hofmann?" With a beam, he nodded, replied, "And of course you paint yourself." For him there was no higher activity and he meant it as a return compliment...
...where the book-jacket first emerged from its lowly dust-wrapper status. Originally used by London booksellers to keep their wares free from fog and grime, the book-jacket underwent a crucial metamorphosis when Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark came out in 1876. Snark's humble grey wrapper shouted critical praise for the two Alice books. As the first known jacket to carry advertisements, it was the ancestor of the modern commercial jacket. The English publisher who pioneered designs for fiction jackets was T. Fisher Unwin. As early as 1896, Unwin adored books with a design illustrating...
...Team. This arsenal of technical prowess is commanded by a slender wisp of a man (5 ft. 7 in., 148 Ibs.) with thinning grey hair, twinkling blue eyes, a Boston accent, and an almost embarrassing diffidence. Among strangers, Lockheed Chairman Gross will go far out of his way to avoid admitting that he heads one of the nation's largest industrial corporations. To occupational questions from fellow airline travelers, he usually responds: "I'm in manufacturing." Recently a famous European actress seated beside him at a Hollywood dinner party asked the inevitable "What do you do?" Replied Gross...