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Dictator? Labor's topmost bosses cried the alarum. Placid Bill Green roused himself: "Fascism may grip America unawares." P.A.C. Boss Sidney Hillman stirred on his sickbed: "The most extreme and autocratic controls over the liberties and democratic rights of American workers ever seriously proposed in the history of our nation." Phil Murray could see "destruction of the labor movement" as Harry Truman's sole aim. John Lewis, fresh from his handshaking with the President, was discreetly silent...
...next 15 years, placid Kate Dickens bore her husband ten children, suffered four miscarriages. But Dickens' attitude toward pregnancy and childbirth was "outwardly unsympathetic and often that of a low comedian." "My wife," Dickens informed a friend, "has presented me with No. 10. I think I could have dispensed with the compliment." "He seemed to think," Dame Una explains, "that she alone was responsible...
Como takes a placid view of his rivals. Says he: "There's always room for three or four at the top. To me Crosby doesn't have to sing. Does he have to prove anything? It's like saying you like butter on your bread or water with your Scotch. You've gotten so used to it you think you can't do without it. Some man sat down with a pipe and thought Sinatra up. It couldn't have happened to a nicer...
With his brother Bob, he built his own 507-lb. sled in a Republic Steel foundry -the only bobsled with all-steel runners, steel body and shock absorbers. He took a leave from his engineering job, spent weeks practicing. One week he thundered down Lake Placid's twisting mile of ice 31 times. He had cameras set up at each turn, at night studied the movies like a football coach looking for faults. The night before the A.A.U. four-man bobsled championship last week, he was at it until 10 p.m., walking the course, inspecting every angle, every little...
Nobody had come close to Linney's record all winter; he had won all but one race at Lake Placid. Some of those who tried, on too little practice, had landed in the hospital. The course, because of unusual weather, was icy and fast. One sled had failed to make Shady Corner, two had catapulted into space at Zig Zag (where the 1932 German Olympic team met disaster) and sent the bobbers to the hospital. In bobsledding, attention to detail is not only prizewinning but healthy...