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Nixon had been considering G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston B. Morton, U.S. Senator from Kentucky, as the vice-presidential prospect most likely to help the ticket in the Border States and the South. But when Johnson joined up with Kennedy, Morton's appeal in the South lost much of its value. Morton does not want the vice-presidential nomination anyway, was relieved when he heard the Johnson news on TV. "We're off the hook!" he yelled to his wife...
...This was Morton Lyon Sahl. delegate from everywhere and nowhere, just about the only un-TelePrompTed speaker in town, and a sideshow considerably brighter than the main attraction. Busy as a Kennedy, he appeared nightly on local television over station KHJ (the call letters, he said, stand for "Kennedy Hates Johnson"), nibbled petits fours and strawberries while matching attitudes with Senators, Governors, showfolk and intellectuals, including a bewildered Max Lerner. Sahl also did two shows a night at the Crescendo on Sunset Strip and managed to write at least one newspaper column each day, mainly for Hearst. First and still...
...After saying last January that he expected to lead New York's 96-vote delegation to the G.O.P. Convention in Chicago, and writing Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton in May that he "would not attend in any capacity" because his "mere attendance could be misconstrued," Governor Nelson Rockefeller last week announced that he would lead the New York flock to the Chicago stockyards, after all.* Rocky finally decided the trip was worthwhile after he had been assured that the delegates would be pledged to no candidate, and that nobody in Chicago was going to ask him to be Vice...
...band at Berlin was called "Papa Kos Jazzin' Babies," and among the 23 bands at Frankfurt were the Riverboat Seven of Munich, the Diissel-dorf Feetwarmers. Berlin's Spree City Stompers. They belted out meticulous imitations of the legendary New Orleans bands of King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Johnny Dodds. To listeners remembering old Okeh and Paramount recordings, the effect was sometimes eerily familiar: Frankfurt's Barrel House Jazzband, for instance, aped the disk of Dippermouth Blues with such studious care that they even mastered the ascending intonation of the famous cry. "Oh, play that thing." near...
WATER OF LIFE (621 pp.]-Henry Morton Robinson-Simon & Schuster...