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Running were Democrat J. J. ("Jake") Pickle, 49, a onetime Johnson congressional staffer and campaign aide, making his first try for office, and Republican James Dobbs, 38, a Goldwater enthusiast who resigned as announcer for a right-wing radio program sponsored by Texas Oilman H. L. Hunt to seek the seat for a second time. Last year Dobbs was the first Republican ever to run for the seat, ended up being clobbered by Incumbent Democrat Homer Thornberry, 42,000 to 25,000. This election came about because Thornberry, who had held the job since Johnson gave...
Dobbs ran mostly against Kennedy, with some sideswipes at Johnson; his campaign signs urged voters to "scratch Lyndon's boy Jake." After Kennedy's assassination and Johnson's succession as President, the wind went completely out of Dobbs's sails. He lost to Pickle 27,000 to 16,000, proving only that in traditional Democratic territory like the Texas Tenth, a Democrat who has the backing of the first Texas Democratic President would have a tough time losing...
...said that I think of the men and women I have seen clasped together with eyes full of loathing, men and women who murder each other with all the weapons of devotion." So says the Peter pumpkin eater of the title. He is a loosely knit English screenwriter named Jake Armitage, and the wife he has put in the pumpkin shell is the narrator-a woman who remains as nameless to the reader as she seems face less to herself...
...wife, at 38, is in her fourth marriage, Jake is in his first, and they are surrounded by an unnumbered "bodyguard" of children. The crisis in their marriage comes when the wife learns that Jake has been unfaithful to her, and she collapses in a "haemorrhage of grief...
...heroine's trouble is her belief that "with the slightest effort we could escape to some safe place where everything would be ordered and good and indestructible." Her first three marriages were a kind of play. But slowly she finds resignation and returns to Jake with no illusions: "I was no longer frightened of him. I no longer needed him. I accepted him at last, because he was inevitable...