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...Wife & Washington. When Dick's older brother Harold had TB, Mrs. Nixon took him to Prescott, Ariz., and in the summers, Dick joined them, working as a barker for the wheel of fortune at the Frontier Days Rodeo. He learned the knack of drumming up customers, and his booth became the most popular in the show...
...reporters arrived on the run. Among them was United Press Bureau Chief Robert Prescott, whose latest story was an interview with O'Dwyer and some of his friends on the ambassador's future plans. Prescott wrote that O'Dwyer was torn between returning to New York and remaining in his "adopted country" to practice law after his diplomatic tour of duty. Prescott's story stated that O'Dwyer "dropped hints to friends . . . that he may become a Mexican citizen when he puts away his diplomatic duds next January." Reporters realized that the ambassador was touchy...
When Irish-born Bill O'Dwyer arrived at the "press conference" his face was flushed with anger. He pointed to Prescott and in his oldtime policeman's voice bellowed, "There is the lying bastard!" The shocked silence was broken by Prescott, who calmly replied, "That's pretty strong, Mr. Ambassador." Said O'Dwyer, "I am calling you what you are in the English language," and repeated it several times, adding "deliberate liar." Then he ordered the reporter from the embassy...
...While Prescott stood by his story and O'Dwyer by his denials, the Mexico City papers had front-page fun at the expense of ambassadorial dignity. There was even a reverberation in the magistrates court of faraway Brooklyn, where O'Dwyer used to be District Attorney. A trucker, who was hauled into court for calling a cop a bastard, found no sympathy from the bench. Said the judge: "Just because our Ambassador to Mexico used that word, it doesn't make it a good word, and anyone who uses that word is a hoodlum-the ambassador included...
Another Pogo booster reported injuries suffered in the line of support late yesterday afternoon. Marvin A. Prescott '55 was practicing on a pogo stick when he fell and suffered a cut over his eye. He went to Stillman infirmary to have it stitched and was in good condition last night. Prescott did not attend the rally last Thursday...