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...FORTIES by Edmund Wilson, edited by Leon Edel Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 369 pages...
...assistance to revolutionary or counterrevolutionary movements that might seek to overthrow governments, to terminate any such aid currently being given, and not to allow their territories to be used for subverting other governments." American signatories of the panel's report included former Cabinet officers Robert McNamara, Elliot Richardson, Edmund Muskie and Cyrus Vance; such business leaders as Banker David Rockefeller and Time Inc. Chairman Ralph Davidson; and retired Air Force General David Jones, who until last June was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Over and over the word recurred as Biographer Edmund Morris made his way through research on Theodore Roosevelt. His contemporaries talked of T.R.'s "sweetness." Even Roosevelt's political opponent Woodrow Wilson was smitten. "There is a sweetness about him that is very compelling," he said. "You can't resist the man." Mark Twain, William Jennings Bryan and even the peevish Henry Adams all were beguiled at one time or another, according to Morris...
...official candidate did not exactly hurry to embrace each other. Only half of the 50 ward committeemen endorsed Washington, who declared that he would not "grovel" for their support and pledged during the primary campaign to strip the machine of its muscle, city hall patronage. Park District Superintendent Edmund Kelly went so far as to endorse Republican Candidate Bernard Epton, 61, a millionaire lawyer who had some slim hope of profiting from the dissension to become the first G.O.P. mayor elected since 1927. And then last week Mayor Byrne suddenly upset all the calculations by announcing that she would...
...Edmund Wilson, the distinguished literary critic, was so unimpressed by his own income (sometimes less than $2,000 per year) that he did not bother to file tax returns from 1946 to 1955; in 1958, he was ordered to pay $35,000 in back taxes and $34,000 in penalties and interest. After Wilson and the IRS settled on $30,000, he achieved literary revenge of a sort by writing an indignant jeremiad: The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest...