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...Vardaman for the U. S. Senate. Vardaman, who looked "like a top-notch medicine man," stood for the poor white against the "nigger." "He was not a moral idiot of genius like Huey Long; he was merely an exhibitionist playing with fire." When Percy Sr. won, they tried to pin a bribery charge on him. It was quickly disproved, but the man who made the charge went on shouting the lie from every platform in Mississippi. He "was a pert little monster, glib and shameless. . . . The people loved him ... not because they were deceived in him, but because they understood...
...smoking, and when he talked with you, he coughed at length, and the familiar smile left his face. Pierre de Chaignon la Rose had been a scholar and a dandy, but in the last few years his glory seemed to be a mere question of spats and stick-pin, though it would occasionally flash in his innumerable stories. Seeing him in full dress in the subway late at night, you could almost guess the story...
Said brash Bill Lear: "Many were the times I had my ears pinned back." First to pin them was Grigsby-Grunow Co., shortly after he had hit on the idea of adapting to radio the dynamic speaker, which launched the Majestic radio. Grigsby stock boomed, but bumptious Engineer Lear had been fired. Disappointed, he drifted until 1929, then on his own introduced the Motorola (first practical commercial radio for automobiles). Two years later he got interested in airplane radio, began to find his stride...
...Stone was up against another experienced man, but was able to hold him to a decision. Dick Thomas turned in his usual steady performance in the 145-pound bracket, garnering the Crimson's second pin in 6:35. Tom Rogstad, with the meet already won by Princeton, wrested a 5 to 0 referee's decision from the Tiger heavyweight...
...Norman Bel Geddes. He is a quiet little man with kindly eyes, a soft-spoken accent, and a well-broken-in pipe. He used to smoke two to three packs of cigarettes a day, using a holder and fishing out the minute butts with his wife's hair pin, but he turned to the pipe because it only takes half as much refilling and gives just as much smoking time. Aside from smoking, the Professor has a deep love for good music, good food, and everything about Russia but the Communists. In spite of his fourteen years on Brattle Street...