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Lyons himself mainly rubs shoulders with the highly paid, highly skilled workers in his huge plant. No detail escapes his cost-conscious eye. When a foreman built himself a partitioned office for his paper work, Lyons tore it down. "A foreman should be on the floor," he said, "pushing blokes to do things." Added Lyons: "If I let him have his office, he'll soon want a girl to do typing for him. Next it will be another girl to assist the first one; before you knew where you were, you'd have six people in each department...
...Royal St. George's Golf Club in Sandwich, England, the Duke of Windsor entered the autumn tournament with a handicap of 16. Wearing a waterproof hat that looked like a combination sou'wester and deerstalker, the Duke shot a 98. Next day, on the eleventh hole, he tore up his card, told club officials: "My game's so bad it's no good going on. It's all right to be playing like this in France . . . ordinary hurdles. But this course is the Grand National of golf courses...
Herman Hickman has spent most of his life alternately telling funny stories and pummeling his fellow men. As burly (5 ft. 11 in., 230 Ibs.) All-America guard at Tennessee ('32), he tore opposing lines to shreds; as a professional wrestler, he grunted & groaned through 300 contests; as a line coach at West Point (1943-48), he had to stop mixing in the scrimmage with his boys because he put too many of them in the hospital. But last week on the Herman Hickman Show (Fri. 7 p.m., NBC), televiewers saw only his friendly side...
Perceptive Europeans have long noted with bewilderment the apparent contradiction between the American tendency toward economic change and American political conservatism. Both are found to the nth degree in Texas. When the Republic National Bank decided to build in Dallas the tallest skyscraper in Texas, it tore down a six-story building only three years old to make room. The geography books once described east Texas as a land of cotton, west Texas as beef country. Today the books are out of date. Cotton was wearing out east Texas land. Today it is prime cattle-grazing country and west Texas...
When he deplaned at the Indianapolis airport, Eisenhower had reached the final stop of his first campaign tour (nine states, 13 cities). At Butler University fieldhouse, Eisenhower tore into the Democrats. He had never sounded more aroused as he pounded in oratorical wrath at "the mess in Washington." Ike poured...