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After 30 years of displeasure at the doings of latter-day Democratic Presidents. Columnist David Lawrence, a self-proclaimed Wilsonian Democrat, warmed slightly toward John F. Kennedy. Reason for the thaw: at Lawrence's suggestion. Red Cross President Alfred Gruenther retrieved from a Red Cross attic a chrome-plated Hammond portable typewriter on which Self-Taught Typist Wilson personally pecked out many of his most important presidential memos and messages, including the original draft of his famed "Fourteen Points" for ending World War I. No typist himself, J.F.K. gracefully accepted the machine for the growing White House display...
...ATTIC (352 pp.)-Richard Hughes-Harper...
...single, classic novel published in 1929, A High Wind in Jamaica (called The Innocent Voyage in the U.S.). Since then, like his compatriot, E. M. Forster, he has become a conspicuous example of that 20th century phenomenon, the great novelist who does not write novels. The Fox in the Attic, his first novel in 24 years, is the first installment of a grand design, The Human Predicament, intended as a fictional study of the demonic forces that shattered the ancient mosaic of European civilization...
...project might seem doomed to failure by its own pretension. Yet English critics have invoked the name of Tolstoy in praising The Fox in the Attic. No one has caviled that Hughes, who was too young for combat in World War I and too old for combat in World War II, should have chosen to write about both. After all, Tolstoy wrote War and Peace a half-century after Borodino. Hughes himself sets his sights even higher; it occurred to him in the middle of World War II, he explains, that "if I turned my back...
...office and his sudden access to the deepest secrets of government. He explored the White House, poked his head into offices, asked secretaries how they were getting along. He propped up pictures of his wife and children in office-wall niches, while Jackie rummaged through the cellar and attic, charmed with the treasures she found there and already determined to make the White House into a "museum of our country's heritage...