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California's Unruh, anxious to win over the state's fractious liberals so that he can seek the governorship in 1970 (he has even been seen recently on vacation sporting a Nehru jacket and love beads), talked up a switch to Teddy. McGovern and Connecticut Senator Abe Ribicoff persuaded Daley to delay his anticipated endorsement of Humphrey for a few days to see if the draft-Teddy move could get rolling. Daley needed little persuading; Humphrey is his fourth choice, after Lyndon Johnson, then Bobby Kennedy, and finally Teddy Kennedy...
OGUNQUIT, ME., Playhouse. A spinsterish dental nurse turns bewitching temptress in Abe Burrows' Cactus Flower...
...conditions are different in different parts of the country." But he wanted the issue "out of our sight" so as not to divide the party and risk a platform fight. The Southerners also remembered Nixon's criticism of Johnson's Supreme Court appointments. While Nixon did not quarrel with Abe Fortas' designation on personal grounds, the Southerners who did looked kindly on Nixon's position...
...liver and the matzoh-ball soup at a family bar mitzvah, the idea for the painting jelled in Kanovitz's mind. Any resemblance to Derain-or for that matter, that particular bar mitzvah-is almost coincidental. The head of one lady is mounted on the shoulders of another. Abe Fortas (left background) got in because "his head reminded me of my father." So did Fannie Hurst (right background), because "she looked like my Aunt Mamie." Kanovitz himself plays the role of "proud papa," shown dancing with his wife. If factual fiction, the picture is visually true, a frozen tableau...
...done nothing else, Abe Fortas has surely shattered the standard notion that a Supreme Court Justice leads a sequestered, monastic life that takes him from bench to book-lined study and back again. After admitting that he had continued to counsel Lyndon Johnson while serving on the court, Fortas cited several precedents to the Senate committee considering his nomination as Chief Justice. Among others, Presidents Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt all had valued advisers on the court, Fortas recalled...