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John L. Sullivan and his handlebar mustaches were objects of manly admiration when a pint-sized Englishman arrived in Manhattan and decided to become a prizefighter himself. After a few fights, James J. Johnston reconsidered. A man with his brains shouldn't risk having them knocked...
...threw away his boxing gloves and bought a black derby. For the next 50 years, at a saucy angle, the derby accompanied Jimmy Johnston and his winged gab through boxing's shady domain. Wearing neat dark suits, and never smoking nor touching whiskey, he hung out mostly at Lindy's, and talked a kind of gay illiteracy straight out of Damon Runyon...
...usual briskly benign manner, President Eric Johnston breezed into Atlantic City for the annual convention of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. One of the first things he did was to tell reporters: "It would be suicidal if price control was abolished immediately. . . . The worst thing that could happen to us would be for prices to spiral and for us to have a period of boom and bust." That afternoon, the Chamber gave its retiring president the back of its hand as it called for the end of all price control, except rent...
Three days later, as Eric Johnston, 49, handed his gavel over to the Chamber's incoming new president, William Kenneth Jackson, 59, there was speculation on whether the Chamber wasn't also turning back to its old hidebound ways. In his four years as its head, Johnston had given the Chamber a patina of liberalism it had never had before. As its spokesman, he had probably made the most eloquent and effective exposition of the new social consciousness of many businessmen...
Fortunately for the story, while the sisters are sailing out a storm together, the Bad Twin is drowned. The Good Twin impersonates her sister, goes home to the engineer, but is found out before the Johnston Office can waggle a finger. Somehow, after all this, the stolen life is returned...