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Nicholas ("Miraculous") Murray Butler, whose biography had long been the longest in the U.S. Who's Who (last edition he had 129 lines), gave way in the 1944-45 edition to International Business Machines President Thomas J. ("Think") Watson, who garnered 148 lines. New names in Who's Who included...
Next to Butcher, Ike's closest colleague is clever, tireless General Beedle Smith, whom Eisenhower baldly describes as the best chief of staff in the world. It is with Smith that Ike holds his longest daily sessions on the progress of the invasion. Until he can move to the Continent, Ike will probably also see a good deal of Winston Churchill, with whom he has recently been lunching regularly twice a week at No. 10 Downing St. The two get along splendidly. Churchill calls Eisenhower "Ike." The general calls Churchill "Sir," or "Prime...
...this phenomenon two veterans too ill for military service are chiefly responsible. So far this year the duel between Jug McSpaden (35, sinus) and Byron Nelson (32, hemophilia) is the longest stretch of consistently great golf in almost half a century...
...tower cost $600,000, but, said Crowe, "it was a half-million dollars cheaper than any scheme anybody else thought of." Shasta also used the world's longest conveyor belt (ten and a half miles) to carry gravel and sand to the damsite. The two bold innovations have drawn international engineering attention...
...Stahlman was center fielder George Boston, with two doubles in four trips to the plate. Right fielder Sherm Clark, catcher Bill Harding, and left fielder Art Conlon also picked up two hits apiece. New Hampshire's pitcher, Crory, batting in the clean-up sport, swatted out the longest hit of the game, a resounding triple...