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...gregarious Bill O'Dwyer has become the most popular ambassador the U.S. ever had in Mexico. Mexicans like him because he speaks Spanish and because his wife is pretty. The O'Dwyers are enormously popular, entertain widely, and get around. He has a nice instinct for handling prideful Mexicans and a politician's feel for public relations. During an inspection trip to the Falcon Dam on the Rio Grande, a joint project of both nations, O'Dwyer said only: "One Falcon Dam is worth 1,000 speeches"-and was quoted all over Mexico. As a broad...
...Right by Instinct. Dick was originally steered to Princeton by an alert alumnus, a Toledo lawyer named Gilmore Flues ('26). Flues, watching Dick play in a losing football game, was impressed by the way the youngster "instinctively did the right thing." Flues enlisted the aid of another Princeton friend, Henry Dodge ('32), to get Dick interested in Princeton. As plant manager of Owens-Ford in Toledo, Dodge knew and liked Dick's father, Richard Sr., one of Libby-Owens' assistant plant superintendents. In the fall of his senior year at Maumee, Dick visited the Princeton campus...
...week stay was apparently enough to convince at least some of the fish that the pool was their home stream. They swam back from the sea and up Puget Sound, guided by their mysterious homing instinct, then struggled through Government fish ladders into Lake Union. When they reached their alma mater, they made a sharp left turn and climbed a ladder into the pool...
...looks and acts rather like a smaller replica of his idol, Diego Rivera. He has the same froggish frame and features, a similar instinct for gregarious, bohemian living. In his pockets, he usually carries a pen, pencils, paintbrushes, adhesive tape, wadded-up notes, neckties, socks, toothpaste and a list of telephone numbers. Thus equipped, he is ready to go anywhere and have a fine time (he once said: "I was born to go traveling around the world on an ostrich, but that could only be done in the 19th Century, when men had imagination and women's arms were...
...Homing Instinct. In Portland, Ore., for the second time in as many weeks, cops found Kenneth W. Scott, 37, stuffed in a garbage can sleeping off a drunk...