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...whether his brains had been fried to the point of sunstroke. There he stood in the heart of the solid South, in downtown Atlanta's Hurt Park, while a cheering crowd of 45,000 stretched to the eye's limit. There beside him stood Atlanta's grey-thatched Mayor William B. Hartsfield. Democratic to the core but proclaiming the need for a Southern two-party system because "we want to be part of the main stream of American life." Following the mayor came Georgia Democrat James V. Carmichael, who once got more popular votes than Gene Talmadge...
Williams formed a company, drilled some 30 wells. For a time things appeared to go swimmingly. Paying himself $500 a week out of the oil funds ("We would draw money against anticipated profits"), he wore frilly white shirts and banker's grey suits, drove a company-owned Buick, and bought a $67,500 house in a fashionable suburb. In the living room, he hung a portrait of Robert E. Lee and one of himself posed dramatically in front of a towering oil derrick. But the derrick was about as near to gushers as he got. Oil dribbled...
Bringing a gold rosary sent by Mount St. Mary's, as well as vitamins, candy bars, clothes, and a box of cigars, Judge Walsh was shown into his brother's prison, where a grey-clad official lectured him on what was permitted-no mention of the trial, no notes, discussion limited to family matters. The rosary was forbidden; only "necessities" might be given to prisoners...
...surpasses him in the jumping events. The two are a taciturn pair; the only sounds of their pre-Rome workouts were the explosive "poofs" as they exhaled at the start of a sprint, or anguished grunts from the weight rings. Each day they methodically pushed themselves to the grey edge of exhaustion. Says Coach Drake: "When an athlete goes in for the decathlon seriously, it's not just a matter of physical conditioning and training-it's a whole way of life...
Patternmaker. For lesser men, the hectic pace of Albert Lasker's life would have led to worse things than an interruptible nervous breakdown. In his 44 years with Lord & Thomas (most of them as sole owner), Lasker dominated U.S. advertising and cut the pattern for its grey flannel suit. Under his influence the public was introduced to irium and Amos 'n' Andy, to Kleenex, four-door sedans and soap operas. Yet Lasker was all but invisible: almost nothing was written about him, and two blocks off Madison Avenue his name is still virtually unknown. In this fine...