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...sprawling (five major agencies plus a score of hospitals, colleges, research institutes) Department of Health, Education and Welfare, teetotaling Methodist Arthur Flemming, 52, brings one of the U.S.'s longest, best records as a Government administrator and personnel expert. In 1939 President Franklin Roosevelt named New York-born Art Flemming, then director of the School of Social Sciences and Public Affairs at Washington's American University, as a Republican member of the U.S. Civil Service Commission. Flemming has been in and out of Government ever since...
...zola McLendon of the Washington Post and Times Herald, who was all in a dither as she asked Juan Carlos what he thought of American girls. "Oh, very pretty," replied the prince gallantly. Winzola gushed later that his blue-green eyes had not only a twinkle, but "the LONGEST, CURLIEST lashes...
...usually rued the day. Henry Kaiser's small, chromeless Henry J. was a dismal failure. So was the drab 1954 Plymouth, which was 4 in. shorter than the year before. Sales dropped nearly 36% to only 381,000 cars a year. A year later Plymouth rolled out the longest (204 in.) car among the low-priced three and promptly boosted sales back up to 647,000 cars...
...head football coach at Yale, author (The Herman Hickman Reader), wit. storyteller, versifier; of complications following an operation for gastric ulcer; in Washington, B.C. A sideline Santa Claus who could quote Shakespeare by the act, Hickman won such popularity at Yale that the university once gave him the longest contract in its history (ten years) despite his not Merriwell-done record: when he resigned in 1952 in favor of a radio-TV career, his Yale elevens had won 16, tied 2, lost 17. Win or lose, the Tennessee Cannonball was good for a laugh, liked to tell stories on himself...
...setting up the Brooklyn Sports Center Authority. Governor Harriman, sometime 8-goal polo player, hustled down to Brooklyn, signed the measure at Borough Hall with the gallant announcement, "I am a Dodger fan." Walter sat back to savor the glorious future. The truth was that he was starting the longest fall downstairs in the history of American comedy...