Word: clare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possibly believable, if unflattering, picture of the National Security Adviser-until the final paragraphs of the first installment, when Quinn related the zipper incident. She first heard of that encounter a year ago from Clare Crawford, a former Post staffer who is now a PEOPLE Magazine Washington correspondent. Crawford had just received from Brzezinski an autographed picture taken after she interviewed him for PEOPLE. At Crawford's office, says Quinn, she thought she saw a photo that showed Brzezinski unzipping his pants. Though hazy on details, Quinn now says that she heard someone say that this was indeed what...
When Crawford read Quinn's sensational last paragraphs, she was appalled. Says Crawford: "At no time did Brzezinski do anything, either physically or verbally, that was improper or that could be interpreted as improper by anyone." He had sent the picture to her inscribed: "Clare, I really shouldn't! Zbig." Brzezinski was outraged at the Post's embroidery on his little sally. He and White House Press Secretary Jody Powell went to see the President. Carter was furious. Said he: "Go ahead and deal with...
...winter of 1973-74, with the English unions and the Conservative government locked in strikes and threats, Strickland becomes active in Labor Party politics, on the side all his well-to-do friends detest. He thinks he is rekindling the socialist torch he carried when young, but his wife Clare scalds him: "You're addicted to your own self-importance and like a real junkie you need bigger and bigger doses to keep going." Strickland also becomes embroiled in an affair with an enormously rich young woman and realizes, belatedly, that she thinks he will break up his home...
Daydreaming about the death of a spouse is a punishable offense in the world of this novel, particularly when the dreamer has a girlfriend with limitless funds and a small portfolio of scruples. When Clare does indeed die violently, Strickland and the London police seem curiously unwilling to suspect the one person who had most to gain from the murder...
...wrote more than 50 books (among them God and Intelligence, Peace of Soul, Three to Get Married), and was almost as famous for person-to-person conversions as for oratory. Among his worldly converts: Louis Budenz, managing editor of the Communist Daily Worker; Columnist Heywood Broun; Playwright-Politician Clare Boothe Luce...