Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most interesting bout of the evening will probably be the three-rounder between fleet, vicious, one-armed Tommy Rodgers and Somerby Dowst. Rodgers' jarring, flailing right hand earned him a unanimous decision yesterday from John Lord...
After six years of working at it, Biographer Lord, a Wallace admirer and himself a farm writer and editor, takes refuge in mystical pronouncements that are as ponderous as they are unrevealing. Writes Lord: Wallace is "no chance growth. The product of an extraordinary heritage and upbringing, deeply-almost broodingly-aware of a genetic continuity in his every act, he lives, moves, and grows as a continuing force...
Although the second half of this fat book is about Henry A. Wallace, neither "the force" nor the man is brought into focus. Lord can record the official acts and pronouncements of Editor (Wallaces' Farmer, New Republic), Agriculture Secretary. Commerce Secretary and Vice President Wallace, but the man himself eludes him. Wallace, to Lord, "is my kind of guy." but readers will look in vain for something of Wallace's personal life, his tastes and habits. Nor does Lord document, though he tries to support, Fiorello LaGuardia's estimate of Wallace as "just a humble little...
...Common Sense. Some of the best sections of The Wallaces describe the feverish operations of the first wave of Brain Trusters. (Author Lord was one of them for a year, ghosted many of Wallace's reports, speeches and articles then & later.) Some measures of the quality of F.D.R.'s earliest advisers is suggested when Roosevelt tagged Wallace "Old Man Common Sense." But to Milo Reno, a farm-audience spellbinder of the early '30s, "Wallace would make a second-rate County Agent if he knew a little more." And blunt AAAdministrator George Peek (whom Lord respects), wrote: "[Wallace...
Readers who have the tenacity to wade through The Wallaces will make a topsoil-deep acquaintance with U.S. farm problems and politics; that, and not character portraiture, is its only reward. At 51, big, friendly Russell Lord edits The Land, a sound agricultural quarterly, at his Maryland farm, runs a correspondence section for the Country Gentleman. The Wallaces wasn't "authorized," but Henry A. and the rest of the family were always ready to pitch in and help. Wallace read every chapter (but the last) as Lord finished it, pretended not to be interested. Says Lord: "Maybe he wasn...