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...history, yet many of those same Democrats distrust him as an ex-Republican who still rides the coattails of Republican heroes. "I want to make it very clear," said Brown last week, "that I intend to guide our state government in the great tradition of Earl Warren and Hiram Johnson...
...that droop. He worries about having people disagree with him, follows almost every declarative sentence with a question: "Don't you think so?" He worries about his hold on the voters. "Frankly," he confides, "I think I'm closer to the people of California than anyone since Hiram Johnson." Then he asks: "Don't you think so?" He worries about being liked, he worries about being disliked, and he worries constantly about being understood. "You know," says Pat Brown, "in all the things that have been written about me, nobody's ever captured me. To understand...
...play, the directors have Jack Bittner, portraying Time, rise out of the ground wearing a 1958 suit and carrying a wet umbrella over his head. They would be wise to do away at once with this altogether too jarring bit of costuming. In the penultimate scene, they make Hiram Sherman, as Paulina's steward, treat his lengthy account of off-stage doings as though he were supposed to be burlesquing the Messenger of ancient Greek drama. This is a questionable interpretation, although admittedly it does get plenty of laughs...
California, the land of cults and characters, had seen youth assert itself before--when Upton Sinclair almost captured the state house and Hiram Johnson clicked his heels in the Capitol. California, the political incubator for Knowlands, Knights, and Nixons, endured in its weary Western way the assault of the amateurs...
...word-on March 1 from Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane to Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. The switch was caused by the resignation of General Partner Alpheus Crosby (Alphie) Beane, 47, but it is really a long-needed tribute to the firm's chief executive, Directing Partner Winthrop Hiram Smith...