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...Herd-Loneliness. At 53, stocky Ben Hecht could look down the rungs of a long, golden ladder. He had left Racine, Wis. in his teens with the idea of becoming a violinist. He became a boy-wonder newspaperman (Chicago Daily News) instead. In 1921 he wrote an involved but honest novel, Erik Dorn, but soon found his real bent in writing plays (like The Front Page, co-authored with Charles MacArthur) and dashing off lush Hollywood scripts for $5,000 a week. "I was always able to make large sums of money without giving money any thought," Hecht says...
...Dario in 1925 he was reminded of Count Keyserling's remark about the women of Italy-that as young girls they dream of being grandmothers. Dario, brilliant and ambitious, dreamt of being an ambassador, and was but a few rungs from the top of Mussolini's ladder when it fell in 1943. Unlike most of the climbers, however, he was not hurt. A daring young man, he dived for an A.M.G. life net, later sported a U.S. uniform while his old pals were marched off to jail. When the Americans moved out, Dario became a Communist...
...Ladder. Success in politics took Aléman somewhat longer. Three times between 1929 and 1935 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress from Vera Cruz. Then he renewed acquaintance with young Lieut. Colonel Carlos Serrano, a dark and devious little man with a passion for politicking. Serrano had drifted from the army into politics, watching closely as the powerful Calles maneuvered Presidents in & out of the National Palace, and the more powerful Cardenas in 1934 maneuvered...
Bottom of the Ladder. That Patterson became an airman was due largely to chance. But he came honestly by his liking for hard work. He was born on Oahu Island, where his father was overseer of a sugar plantation. A tireless man, his father often wore out three horses in the course of a day's riding about the fields. He died when Billy, as he was then called, was 8. Young Billy and his mother, who worked in different places while Billy sandwiched in his hit-or-miss schooling, traveled back & forth between San Francisco and Hawaii. When...
...would be an un-Texan understatement to say that Texans boast. It was probably a Texan who was so tall that he had to climb a ladder to shave; it was undoubtedly his brother who was so small that it took two men and a boy to see him. So when they heard that Hugh Roy Cullen gave away upwards of $100 million one night last week, Texans recognized a true son of the Lone Star State...