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...official, and owner of the Oceanside (Calif.) Blade-Tribune (which he purchased in 1954 with the help of a $100,000 loan from Nelson Rockefeller and sold profitably last year). A Kennedy liberal, Braden headed California's board of education, a post in which he clashed often with Max Rafferty, the reactionary state superintendent. This journalistic odd couple-Braden is tall, wiry and intense, Mankiewicz is short, round-faced and bemused -launched their project in the belief that most columns "are lousy" and fail to express a "sense of outrage." Yet the two have developed a detached style, garnished...
...columnists. Many editorialists agreed with the Tulsa World, which wrote: "We can honestly feel for the Senator in his time of terrible anguish, but our Presidents must be elected for their reliable strengths, not out of sympathy for their misfortunes." The essence, said the New York Post's Max Lerner, was that "at a crisis moment in his life, when another human life was at stake, Senator Kennedy was either thrown into confusion or stunned into insensitivity and inaction...
...himself temporarily from threatening circumstances. Subconsciously seeking the protective company of those he knew, Kennedy might thus have passed up nearby houses that could have offered help for the more certain, if more distant safety of his friends. "No one knows what his own breaking point is," says Dr. Max Sadove, professor at the University of Illinois Medical School. "It is different at different times for different people." Nevertheless, it remains somewhat difficult to accept the thought that Kennedy's state of shock could have allowed him the rational move of calling on his friends for help and giving them...
ISAAC BABEL: YOU MUST KNOW EVERYTHING. Edited by Nathalie Babel. Translated by Max Hayward. 283 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
Many of the 25 stories translated by Max Hayward for this edition were published in Russia during Babel's lifetime, but only a few even begin to approach the lyrical force of such concentrated conceptions as the widely known The Story of My Dovecot, Lyubka the Cossack and Salt. The Jewess, longest story in the book and presumed to be a fragment of a proposed novel, touches on one of Babel's most forceful and most personal themes-the conflicting needs of a Soviet Jew to retain his traditions and be a correct citizen. The Jewess...