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...enjoy disliking the Vice President. When Nixon stepped out of an Air Force plane at St. Louis, not a soul from the A.F.L. was on hand to greet him. Next morning, when he walked to the speaker's platform in the Gold Room of the Jefferson Hotel, not a soul applauded. Though there was a perfunctory scattering of handclaps later, when he began to speak, hundreds of delegates simply sat and looked at him. But if Nixon realized at this point that he had entered a lion's den, he seemed buoyed by a truly Daniel-like confidence...
...World Conference on Medical Education, meeting in London, heard an eminent British neurosurgeon, Sir Geoffrey Jefferson, denounce the practice of having medical students sit in the gallery watching operation after operation. "A shocking waste of time," said Sir Geoffrey. "They would be much better employed in the wards." Besides, said Sir Geoffrey, too many surgeons wax theatrical before a student audience, "give tongue only to reprimands or agonized cries about the incompetence of their assistants . . . This is often good entertainment, [but it is] a bad example to their juniors who may come to believe that bluster and theatrical imbecilities...
...Jefferson, Iowa, the Cossets found a farmer foursome on the golf course ("French peasants will play golf the day that the Versailles Palace becomes a drive-in restaurant"), other farmers who fly their own Piper Cubs as much as 600 miles for a Sunday pleasure jaunt. Industrial workers were also plainly more prosperous in the U.S. than their French counterparts: in Pittsburgh, the Cossets met Patrick N. O'Connell, a rolling-mill foe man with a wife and eight children, who owns a station wagon, a TV set, his own home, gets no such "family allotment" as fecund Frenchmen...
What gave this true, grim story its special interest was the fact that the Lewis boys were nephews of Tom Jefferson; their mother was Lucy Jefferson of Virginia, the President's sister. For Poet-Novelist Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men), this was enough to induce a stream of narrative free verse that runs to book length, with a cast that includes the shade of the murdered George, the murderers, their parents, and Tom Jefferson himself. Author Warren takes the part of commentator and uninvited amateur psychiatrist. Stripped of its turgid pretenses, Brother to Dragons asks...
...trying to answer these questions, Author Warren clutters up the story and gives it a bogus air by putting long-winded rationalizations into Jefferson's mouth. Southern violence has always had a heady appeal for Warren, and villainous hotheads seem to have some lien on his sympathies. Even in All the King's Men, the Huey Long-like Willie Stark was perhaps handled with too much solicitude. Now, in Brother to Dragons, Lilburn's crime is so hedged in by sympathy that it sometimes seems as if poor George should have been proud to be dismembered...