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With the endorsement of 34 million voters and the imminent retirement of Dwight Eisenhower from politics, Richard Nixon is the acknowledged leader of the Republican Party and the top candidate to be its presidential nominee again in four years. But, says a Nixon man: "Dick is a hell of a long way from deciding about...
...teaching career. He has yet to find time for that doctorate. A talent for staffwork hoisted him up through civil service ranks to its top-level GS-18 rating before he stepped out of ranks in 1958 to become assistant director of the Budget Bureau. Two years ago Dwight Eisenhower named him chairman of the Civil Service Commission. "God and the Government," Jones once noted, "have been very, very good...
...elect's personal life. After word got out that Kennedy bought suits tailor-made in London, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram clucked reprovingly over criticism of such practice. When Kennedy forswore golf except while on official vacations, the New York Post, which for years had been needling Republican Dwight Eisenhower for his golf, professed itself "dismayed." And the New York Times indignantly blamed the U.S. for this presidential sacrifice: "The nation might well worry its conscience over whether it has been having so much uncharitable fun with presidential golf that it has made a trip around the course...
PARODIES-AN ANTHOLOGY FROM CHAUCER TO BEERBOHM AND AFTER (574 pp.) -Dwight Macdonald-Random House...
This flawless (because meaningless) fragment of prose is offered as a parody of the once-famed gibberish of Gertrude Stein, and is the work of an unknown writer, Arthur Flegenheimer. It is one of the more recondite items in this anthology of Dwight Macdonald, critic, polemicist and New Yorker staff writer. To see just how recondite it is, the reader must not miss the footnote, in which it is disclosed that the obscure Flegenheimer is Mobster Dutch Schultz, and that the Stein "parody" is a police stenographer's transcript of his dying delirium. Such thimbleriggery is a fair sample...