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Ullman balances this torrent of abuse by including the perspectives of four maverick representatives of the music business. Management agent Maxine Gregg, who orchestrated Gordon's wildly successful "homecoming," claims that many jazz musicians could succeed like Gordon if they were willing to do some long-range career planning, but she concedes that a vicious cycle must be broken first...
...sizable margins. In the process, they padded their already fat leads in numbers of delegates and disheartened their rivals. Among the Democrats, California Governor Jerry Brown dropped out of the race entirely after winning a paltry 12% of the votes in Wisconsin, the chief battleground. On the Republican side, maverick John Anderson won only 28% of the Wisconsin vote, a third-place showing so poor that it wrecked whatever hope he had left of winning the G.O.P. nomination. It also cast doubt on his ability to lead a vigorous third-party challenge, though he is leaning more than ever...
...latest surveys provide further evidence that George Bush's campaign has stalled. His image as a strong leader has evaporated, and only 17% of the Republicans and independents interviewed want him as their nominee, down from 35% in January. Nor is there a groundswell for Republican Maverick John Anderson. His support is strongest among voters under 35 and among those with incomes of more than $25,000. But only 32% of the people surveyed would like him to run as an independent candidate if, as now seems certain, he cannot wrest the Republican nomination from Reagan; 48% would...
Aside from the musical finish, it was a standard performance-moralistic, idealistic, enthusiastic, and always self-assured -by this year's most uncommon candidate, the liberal Republican maverick who started his campaign last June as John Who?, then nearly won the primaries in Massachusetts and Vermont and now enjoys the enthusiastic support of a ragtag but sizable collection of independent voters, disenchanted Democrats and even a few like-minded Republicans...
...that he had second thoughts about having some of them published; many of the sharpest barbs in the original manuscript were toned down or cut out by Douglas and his fourth wife Cathy, 36. Still, the book should bear out the Justice's well-earned reputation as a maverick. The work is known to contain an especially vivid and unflattering portrait of Douglas' earliest nemesis on the court, the late Felix Frankfurter. Of the current nine members of the court, Chief Justice Warren Burger gets the harshest treatment, as indeed he does in The Brethren, where...