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...Then the dragon's tail effect lashed out. On the morning before Humphrey was to arrive, Murphy got a call from Detroit. Humphrey had helped the cause too long and well at a discotheque fund-raising féte the night before in Manhattan. His doctor-mentor, Edgar Berman, had prescribed a good night's sleep. Humphrey would spend the night in Detroit. There went the schedule: scores of hotel rooms, the airport greeting, even the suburban housewives waiting for their chat. What about all that equipment? What about Waterbury? For that matter, what about Connecticut...
Tossed together by the computer, Carol Berman and Patricia Marks discovered that they had similar tastes in clothes, tended to cram their studies into long nights before deadlines, and shared a love of soul music. They even had a similar hangup: Carol sleeps with a "security blanket," while Pat feels lost without her own well-worn pillow. "I'm messy," says Carol, "and so is she." Don Denzin and James Sherry found companionship in a mutual appreciation of Thoreau's Walden and a joint jam session-Don on clarinet, Jim on guitar. Carol Tucker and Lynn McElroy were...
Though he is still officially on the staff of Baltimore's Sinai Hospital, Berman gave up his general practice in 1962. During a busy career as a surgeon, he pioneered such things as plastic replacements for worn-out human parts (he created a plastic esophagus for cancer victims), made one of the first heart transplants between dogs in 1957, and at the peak, earned $80,000 to $90,000 a year. After making big sums in Maryland real estate, he became bored with medicine. "I enjoyed it for 15 years," he explains. "Then I found I didn...
...something else was MEDICO, the CARE-sponsored health organization that helps develop clinics in underdeveloped countries. Berman met Humphrey in 1954 when he was called to testify on public health problems before a Senate subcommittee, of which the then Minnesota Senator was a member. Impressed with his presentation, Humphrey asked him to dinner. The two became close friends. A modern art buff with an impressive collection of De Koonings, Pollocks and Rothkos, Berman enjoys explaining his paintings to the Vice President, who likes abstract art but admits that he does not understand it. In 1965, when Berman was between careers...
Privy to all of Humphrey's top-level sessions and ultimate decisions, Berman, besides giving back rubs and advice, is keeping what he calls a "constant diary" of the campaign. Taking notes or, on occasion, using a tape recorder, he keeps an account of each meeting, then, as soon as he can, writes out what went on. With six weeks yet to go, his chronology already runs to 2,000 pages. If Humphrey should defy the odds and win the election, Berman would undoubtedly become Humphrey's Boswell, a physician-biographer with unparalleled access to the heart, mind...