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...quit his job as writer for a children's TV show called Chuckles the Chipmunk ("When Sandburg and Faulkner left, I left"). His one-room apartment is an insult to the Ladies' Home Journal. Amid the debris is Murray's prize possession, his twelve-year-old ward and nephew Nick. Winningly played by Barry Gordon, Nick is polysyllabic without being precious. Murray and Nick share a zany palship. On a crowded elevator Murray levels an admonitory finger at Nick and says loudly: "Max, there'll be no more of this self-pity...
...been so all along (the author implies), then armed with this concept he is Nixon reformed, Nixon respectable, Nixon virtuous, Nixon--very nearly--victorious. But he is not really anything of the kind. Still the professional politician of the Douglas days, he speaks to fund-raising dinners, ward banquets, and National Committee Chairmen, but not to the people. Eisenhower (elevated above the people), missions to Venezula and Russia, have brought him no closer to them...
...became a partner in a respected Denver law firm. He built a reputation in 14 years there as a versatile lawyer who could handle complex corporation cases, tax matters, contract disputes or general law. Politically, he had done little more than some dabbling in Denver's Democratic ward politics when, in 1960, Jack Kennedy asked his help in rounding up Colorado delegates at the Democratic convention. After the convention, Bobby Kennedy asked White to head the national Citizens for Kennedy group and was impressed by White's softspoken yet persuasive wooing of the voters. "They see Byron...
...Another well-known Boston politician, longtime Mayor James Michael Curley, drew 60 days in Suffolk County Prison in 1904, when he was a city alderman, for taking a civil service examination for a ward heeler named Bartholomew Fahey. It did Curley no harm: while in jail, he ran for re-election...
...Dutch, Indonesia's activity in the area seemed suspiciously like the prel ude to a full-scale invasion, and they rushed reinforcements to the area. Two destroyers and two submarines sped to ward New Guinea from California and Mexico. KLM diverted passenger jets from the Amsterdam-New York run to fly some 1,500 marines out to the Pacific...