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...George McGovern and his legions have deeply moved this 30-year-old, city-bred (Los Angeles), Irish Catholic female. The traditional Democrat. Yes, they have moved me completely and passionately to the party of Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon...
...days when they were first invented by the Anti-Masonic Party in 1831, or from 1912, when Teddy Roosevelt arrived at the G.O.P. Convention noting that it was "not a place for anybody who doesn't love a fight." In his Republican keynote address in 1948, Illinois Governor Dwight Green accused the Democrats of having "invited the lunatic fringe to share their feast of power." Such rhetoric is sure to be in the air over Miami Beach. As Theodore White wrote four years ago: "One comes to any convention with an anticipatory sense of excitement; there is a game...
...much of its 34-year history, the Nieman Foundation program for journalists at Harvard has carried high prestige. Nieman fellowships offered newsmen an academic year of leisured study and exposure to prominent people with provocative viewpoints. More recently, however, some Nieman fellows have been critical of Dwight Sargent, 55, a former editorial-page editor for the old New York Herald Tribune, who has been the Nieman curator since 1964. Under Sargent, it is said, the program has lacked the verve it had under the 25-year leadership of Louis Lyons. Now Sargent has resigned, and will be replaced in September...
...this non-play, Gore Vidal rather hysterically strafes some of his pet skunks. In order of defamation, their names are Richard Nixon, John Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson and William F. Buckley Jr. Nixon is submitted to a kind of kangaroo court-martial, but Vidal is not interested in a dialogue of viewpoints. Instead, he offers a nonstop diatribe, vitriolic and at times caustically amusing. Nixon is so one-sided that it has the curious effect of creating a certain sympathy for its leading character...
Died. Arthur E. Summerfield, 73, Dwight Eisenhower's Postmaster General and campaign manager; of pneumonia; in West Palm Beach, Fla. A ninth-grade dropout, Summerfield built up one of the country's largest Chevrolet dealerships during the Depression. His 1940 Michigan campaign work for Wendell Willkie started his political career; by the 1952 Republican Convention, he was able to deliver a key bloc of delegates to Eisenhower. In return, Summerfield was appointed Eisenhower's campaign manager. Republican National Committee chairman, and finally Postmaster General...