Word: lens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days the family often picnicked on the beach, where father Hall had built a brick oven for feasts of winkles and horseshoe crabs. There were few luxuries, and the Hall boys chored around the neighborhood for spending money, but it was a happy, close-knit life. His mother taught Len how to handle a gun (he is still a skilled trap-shooter), and tutored him in his studies so expertly that he skipped to the third grade a month after he entered school...
...year after his father died, Len went to Washington, drawn there by Franklyn Hall's vivid stories of life in the capital. The lanky boy's life was far from vivid. He got a $50-a-month job with the Potomac Electric Power Co., thus managed to support himself while attending night classes at the Georgetown University Law School. It was not easy. Hall often wore old clothes ("I invented the idea of wearing pants and coat that didn't match"), worked out a complicated route to school so he would not have to spend more than...
...host's daughter, Gladys, a pretty mother of two, who was separated from her husband. After her divorce Hall courted her over the parcheesi board in the Dowsey parlor until the summer of 1933, when Gladys went to her father's camp in the Adirondacks. Lonesome Len chartered a small plane and took off in hot pursuit. In the mountains the pilot had trouble finding a landing strip, finally came down on a baseball diamond, after buzzing it until he broke up the ball game. Len made the last, 38-mile lap by taxi and boat. "When...
Absentee Candidate. In 1952, rather than face another tough primary fight against the Sprague organization, Len Hall decided to run for the surrogate court in his county-a cushy job that paid $30,000 a year. Just as he was getting ready to campaign, he got a call from Candidate Dwight Eisenhower's headquarters in Manhattan. "Len," barked Sherman Adams, "you're taking the train." And so Hall rode with Ike, took care of his schedules and appointments, and acted as a jovial maitre d'hôtel aboard the campaign train. On Election Day, without ever...
...Len Hall is a study in perpetual motion. In three years he has traveled an estimated half a million miles around the U.S., consulting the party brass, greeting the voters (he has an elephantine memory for names, faces and telephone numbers), giving pep talks to sagging local organizations, and keeping the Republican machine in good working order. In Washington he has exercised his talent for lowering ceilings by consolidating the national committee's office space, whittling down the permanent staff, thus saving $300,000 a year in rents and payroll costs. He meets nearly every day with the President...