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Peanuts & Bawdyhouses. He was, by every instinct, a Beacon Hill Republican. He spent years writing unsolicited letters of advice to U.S. Presidents-no matter who they were. Woodrow Wilson, he said, "could not run a peanut stand." As for F.D.R.-well, friends dared not mention the name in Cabot's presence...
...supersalesman with boundless enthusiasm, "Red" Curtice had an almost unerring instinct for the styling or engineering touch that would inspire the public to want G.M. cars above all others. "New cars must not be too radical or they will not sell," he said. "Automobile owners are among the most conservative people in the world." Curtice himself was not. Reaching into all parts of G.M.'s sprawling operations, he was the prime mover behind the two-tone paint job, the wrap-around windshield, the hardtop convertible. Only rarely, as when he indulged in the chrome-splashing spree that hurt sales...
...Staple Like Salt. She begged what recipes she could from her family and methodically added to that basic list whatever could be garnered from gourmet columns of the day or pried out of restaurant chefs and neighboring hostesses. Aware that she did not possess the gift of cooking by instinct, she took care to note measures and ingredients in explicit detail, never said "some butter" when she meant 4½ tablespoons or "cook until done" when she could define "done" as taking 2¼ hours. In 1931, when her children left home to get married, they took with them...
Between business deals, often carried out on two telephones at once, Hirshhorn pores over art books, uses every spare minute to dart in and out of galleries. Though his store of knowledge about art is awesome, he seems to operate almost entirely by instinct. "There are," he says, "two types of art-good and bad. If you see a piece that you really like, it hits you in the brain, and in my case, I gotta buy it." Occasionally, Collector Hirshhorn may take a whole day, or even two, to make up his mind about a purchase. More often, "when...
Joined by the Crown, the pound sterling (except for Canada), and the heritage of English as a second or even first language, the Commonwealth's commingling of custom, instinct and self-interest has somehow surmounted fierce disagreements over Suez and South Africa, Kashmir and the Congo, colonial policy and foreign relations, democracy and Communism-and, most significantly of all, Empire itself...