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There is one unqualified success: David Huddleston's Big Joe, an aging outlaw with the fight knocked out of him, who is spare in action but effulgent in abuse, and directs his thugs like the Joe Mankiewicz who Benton and Newman once worked for (on whom the character is reportedly based). Still, there's a lot of soggy Harvey Schmidt pianoforte and vacant land-scapes and awkward tries at folksiness to go through before he meets his end. By the time he brags about being "the oldest whore on the block," it's become clear that not only Jake...
...little foxes never made it to Grandma Shirley's or forsook Uncle Hubert, because they got ambushed by Julian magic. One minute, there was magnolias, and then, suddenly, they were FMBC and, while Frank Mankiewicz was putting them down on the plus side of his delegate list, Julian Bond was strolling off on gilded splinters to ju-ju another stray...
...keeping with his more modestly financed campaign, McGovern denounced the war with such graphic descriptions of napalm, pineapple bombs and steel fleshettes that the audience seemed to applaud in relief at the end. Still, crowds were more attentive than usual. "He sounds more like a Democrat," said Frank Mankiewicz. "I don't think he'll ever be a good old boy, but I think the party leaders like him more...
...bemused, McGovern was also grateful for whatever enthusiasm the Kennedy radiance brought. McGovern Aide Frank Mankiewicz said coolly: "Nobody's ego is involved. If people want to vote for George McGovern because Ted Kennedy is for him, we won't object." Nor was it only Kennedy's star quality that made the difference. McGovern was cheered just as warmly and usually longer. Moreover, he began to get the feel of audience-tested lines. The most popular, repeated in litany: "Never again will we commit the precious young blood of this land to prop up a corrupt military...
...SAMMA fancy of Stewart Udall, then the Interior Secretary, who hired him as his aide. In Washington, Kimelman became friends with McGovern, whom he admired for his antiwar stand. McGovern and his supporters have been frequent guests at the Kimelman home overlooking the Charlotte Amalie harbor. (Campaign Managers Frank Mankiewicz and Gary Hart rested up from the Democratic Convention there...