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...rose from Cleveland mayor to Ohio Governor to U.S. Senator on Press support. If the Press doesn't like a politician, the whole city soon finds out. Before an election last November, the Press's rundown of candidates identified one aspiring city councilman as "an admitted tax cheat," another as "Front man for a slum landlord." Monuments to the Press's love for the city dot the landscape: a handsome lakefront development, an expanded public hall, new low-cost apartment houses built over slums, a new community college. But Seltzer and the Press are too busy...
...LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. "The thing that lies behind all great careers from Shakespeare's to Lincoln's is the sense that life is a cheat and its conditions those of defeat." So wrote the novelist near the end of his life when he was poor, neglected and wasted by hack writing and alcohol. But these letters, most written then, contain some of his very best writing...
...cheat a writer out of a credit line as if it were a selfless act of charity: "If I didn't have faith in you, do you think I'd put my name on your scripts?" He makes equivocation sound like grandeur: "I'm a man of great decision who can go either way." Except toward his twelve-year-old daughter, his cynicism is total, like love or war. Life and people are all frauds, he tells the nubile new secretary (Carol Rossen) who falls half in love with him, and in a world of phonies...
...Cheat. Loosening up as it progressed, the interview closed in an exchange of banter, with Khrushchev maintaining that capitalists controlled the U.S. Government. "Who was McNamara before he became Secretary of Defense?" asked Nikita. "He was president of Ford Motor," answered G. Keith Funston, president of the New York Stock Exchange. "He's one out of ten in the Cabinet. Why not talk about the others...
...Wilson's assertion that the American people, through the stock market, own much of U.S. business, Khrushchev laughed. "Capitalists are very astute to have thought that up," he said. "It's a new way to cheat people." He went on to describe the "parasitic" state of capitalism, where the coupon clipper "can live a life of luxury, drinking, carousing, or changing wives," then eased off. "I'm your host here," he concluded, "so please don't put me in the position of going into each individual here and asking where he directs his activities...