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Edward Jay Epstein, who wrote the article for the July issue of Commentary magazine, explains that he was given an opportunity to read the original, unrevised edition of Manchester's book, then tentatively titled Death of Lancer (Kennedy's Secret Service code name was "Lancer...
...from being simply a detailed and objective chronicle of the assassination," Epstein writes, Death of Lancer was "a mythopoeic melodrama organized around the theme of the struggle for power between two men, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson . . . [But] the characters bearing these names in Death of Lancer have at best a questionable relation to the real persons themselves and at worst no relation at all outside the heated imagination of the author...
Already Ensconced. The book-originally titled Death of Lancer in reference to Jack Kennedy's Secret Service code name-paints, in fact, an almost unrelieved portrait of Johnson as an unfeeling and boorish man. Manchester's hostility to Johnson comes across with particular force in his description of the hours immediately after the assassination. In his original version, at least, Manchester told how the Kennedy contingent arrived at Dallas' Love Field with the President's body and was "dismayed" to find that Johnson's party had moved in to Air Force One. Johnson himself...
...Lancer to Wayside. Many who join Government, of course, are already distinguished in their fields and serve at a financial sacrifice. But the long-term rewards are worth it. Before being tapped by Kennedy as Internal Revenue Commissioner at a salary of $21,500, Mortimer Caplin was earning $50,000 a year in his tax law practice; since returning to private life more than a year ago, he has built up an income that "runs into six figures." Last week Najeeb Halaby, a onetime Navy test pilot who resigned last July after four years as administrator of the Federal Aviation...
Enter the photographer. He is Detroit Free Lancer J. Edward Bailey, 40, who does much of TIME'S photographic work in the Detroit area. Once he had the assignment, Ed Bailey read up on automobile styling over a period of two months, digging into books and pamphlets and learning to toss off inside jargon like "Di-Noc" and "frisket knife." Before he took a picture, he spent five days at the four auto manufacturers' studios, testing lighting for color film and filters used under artificial light mixed with daylight. Then he worked for 22 days in the auto...