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...novel by Russian Symbolist Poet Valery Bryusov (1873-1924), the opera unfolds the story of a demon-haunted doxy named Renata, who grows up in 16th century Germany in the company of an angel, but loses her impulse to sainthood when she decides that she wants to be his mate. The angel disappears in an angry burst of flame, and Renata keeps looking for him until she at last runs afoul of the Inquisition and is sentenced to death at the stake. Part of the fascination of this murky Gothic tale is that most of it exists in Renata...
...break came in 1952, before the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Warren, as he led the California convention eastward by train, had high hopes that he might get the presidential nomination through an Eisenhower-Taft deadlock. (He had been Tom Dewey's running mate in 1948.) Nixon, though pledged with the California delegation to Warren for President, was an active Eisenhower advocate who had also talked privately about the vice presidency with Ikemen Tom Dewey and Herbert Brownell. Fresh from Chicago convention headquarters, Nixon swung aboard the Warren train at Denver, began spreading the word of Eisenhower...
...Mate." In Clackmannanshire on the Firth of Forth, Editor John Ogilvie sat up all night setting type himself, brought out his weekly Alloa Circular and Hillfoots Record on time. Girl typists helped keep the Birmingham Mail on the streets by having a go at the Linotype machines ("Eh, mate. Can't we have overalls like you?" called one begrimed girl to a man, gasped when she recognized Eric Clayson, chairman of the board, who had donned work clothes to help out). In Devon, an ironmonger's wife who works as a stringer correspondent for several regional papers decided...
...Nixon that he might want a Cabinet post rather than run again for Vice President. "I would have been like Henry Wallace if I had taken a Cabinet job," Nixon scornfully told Mazo later, and a friend added that Eisenhower's failure to pick Nixon as his running mate at the very start was "one of the greatest hurts of his whole career." For a while, Nixon seriously considered leaving public life...
Even more dangerous to Nixon was the 1952 affair of the "Nixon Fund," which also makes the most dramatic reading in the book. Ike was at first undecided about whether or not to drop his running mate and told reporters that anyone on his ticket would have to prove himself "clean as a hound's tooth." Hearing about the remark, Nixon "forced a disbelieving smile and muttered something to himself." Later, Ike seemed to try to postpone a decision; reports Mazo: "Nixon stiffened and said sternly, 'There comes a time in a man's life when...