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...Dean Burch: Yogi Berra's reward was being fired for not taking the World Series. What would Burch suggest for the manager of a '64 political-pennant contender who strengthened his pitching staff for the race by trading Abe Lincoln for Strom Thurmond...
...decide whether Bousgarbiès' injury is worth 1 franc. Appeals may drag on for a year. Despite the general levity, though, Bousgarbiès has received hundreds of letters from French patriots who seem just as mad as Americans would be at a TV bike race between Abe Lincoln and Jeff Davis...
...With Lyndon and several top aides on the road, Liz Carpenter, Lady Bird's press secretary, was the only White House press staffer on hand. She took the call. Unbelieving and upset, she phoned Jenkins in his office. Within minutes, a distraught Jenkins got in touch with Lawyer Abe Fortas,* an old Lyndon crony, and told him almost hysterically that he was in "real trouble." Fortas called Fellow Lawyer Clark Clifford, a top trouble-shooter in the Truman, Kennedy and Johnson Administrations...
...Bill of Rights are constantly tested and retested in the courts by the people who live in the bottom of society's barrel." Gideon is a classic type of the cussedly independent man. His 22-page letter from jail (Lewis quotes it in full) to Washington Lawyer Abe Fortas, who was appointed to represent him before the Supreme Court, is an autobiographic gem that ranks with the famous letter that Nicola Sacco wrote from his death cell in Boston's Charlestown jail...
...reporter," he says. "I think reporters make excellent news executives." It is a theory that Catledge successfully tested last spring when he called in Foreign Correspondent Abe Rosenthal and made him metropolitan editor, in charge of the Times's 160 local newsmen. "This man is now doing vicariously what he did personally," says Catledge. "He's not just...