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...Ambassador (to Russia); 3) Governor (New York); 4) a man of such towering clout in Washington that former Secretary of State Dean Acheson personally toted his passport application (for a planned trip to Red China) to the State Department for approval. What's more, Harriman had brought along a collaborator almost as impressive: Charles W. Thayer, brother-in-law of ex-U.S. Ambassador to Russia Charles E. Bohlen and himself a career diplomat (including four years in Russia) turned freelance writer (Bears in the Caviar, The Unquiet Germans). Thayer's job was to act as combination guide...
When Gay heard that CBS was thinking of a morning hillbilly show, he cut a pilot film of Dean that sold CBS bigwigs. Within two weeks Jimmy Dean had become the first performer in three years to clout NBC in the morning rating war. His fans wrote up to 25,000 letters a week. (Sample: "It's about time the damyankees gave a good country boy a chance...
...labor than Minneapolis (pop. 560,700). Endorsement by the city's Central Labor Union (representing 166 A.F.L. locals, 75,100 members) has all but guaranteed election-day victory since the mid-'40s. But last week, to its pained surprise, the C.L.U. discovered that its political clout was sadly diminished...
Mushroomed Clout. In Milan, Salvatore Cinquegrane, 20, who stepped on a streetcar and squabbled with the conductor, was booked for : 1) not paying, 2 ) hitting the conductor, 3) damaging public property, 4) resisting arrest, 5) disturbing the peace, 6) refusing to identify himself to police, and 7) drunkenness...
...novelist bent on discrediting a popular idea may choose to 1) give the reader an intellectual hotfoot, i.e., singe his brain with a better idea, 2) tickle his funnybone with satire, 3) clout him over the head with the blunt instrument of anger. British-born Novelist Geoffrey Wagner belongs to the blunt-instrument school. His mallet of malice falls on psychiatry and especially psychoanalysis, its high priests, practices and pretensions. With scarcely a smidgen of saving humor, but with much righteous wrath, The Dispossessed argues that Freud, Jung, Adler, et al. are bloodletters of the psyche whose theories will eventually...