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...Michigan C.I.O. Council. "Hoffa," says Scholle, "figures he can always buy what he wants." Adds a West Coast lawyer: "Jimmy Hoffa believes that anything can be accomplished and will seize a way to do it. You could count Dave Beck as being tough, but he's an angel alongside of Hoffa. Hoffa is just plain ruthless. Beck rants and snorts. As a last resort, he would use group physical violence, but he wouldn't have anyone bumped off. Hoffa wouldn't stop at anything...
Frederick Vanderbilt Field, the maverick millionaire who served as a U.S. Communist Party angel for years, was secretary of the Civil Rights Congress bail fund that posted bond for a long procession of U.S. party leaders on trial for Smith Act violations...
...ANGEL (252 pp.)-Elizabeth Taylor -Viking...
...Angel" is a monster. Her real name is Angelica Deverell, and as the reader first meets her in a grubby, turn-of-the-century English small town, it is possible to mistake her for just another awkward young girl idly dreaming of escape. But quickly and chillingly it becomes clear that Angel is one of those rare and frightening people who take their dreams literally, cling to them even in the high noon of growing up, and are ready to lie, cheat or step over corpses to make their fancies come true. Angel dreams of being beautiful, clever, successful, beloved...
...Angel really knows nothing of the high life she preposterously describes (in her books, champagne bottles are opened with corkscrews). Indeed, she knows nothing of life at all, and refuses to learn. She does not copy from other books: it all comes out of the recesses of her appalling imagination. She is arrogant, vain and unfeeling-a child in a permanent lifelong tantrum. When her huge, ferocious dog kills a small terrier, she insists it was the terrier that attacked; when the critics accurately describe her work as ludicrous, she insists (and firmly believes) that they are spiteful, jealous fools...