Word: mazo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Which Richard Nixon? Friends, enemies and those in between could not agree. They never could before. In a generally sympathetic biography nine years ago, Earl Mazo found in Nixon a "paradoxical combination of qualities that bring to mind Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Joe McCarthy." The intervening years have polished Nixon and made him well-to-do, but they have not simplified him. He can still sound like the high-minded statesman and act like the cunning politico. He can talk eloquently of ideals and yet seem always preoccupied with tactics. He can plink out Let Me Call...
...Died. Mazo de la Roche, 82, most popular and prolific novelist in Canadian history, whose Whiteoaks of Jalna kept one foot in never-never land, the other on the bestseller lists of three continents (U.S. sales of the 16-romance series: over 2,000,000); after a long illness; in Toronto...
...accuse him of selling out, have coined a new reading for L.B.J.: "Let's Beat Judas." Southern conservatism is on the rise and, as Southern Senators made clear in Congress last week, the conservatives are not enthusiastic over their nominee. Complained one to touring Herald Tribune Newsman Earl Mazo: "Every time you pick up the paper there's a picture of Kennedy with Reuther or Soapy Williams or another fellow like that." Almost unnoticed, moreover, the Southern G.O.P. has been rebuilding. Patronage grubbers have been replaced by fresh new workers. Admits South Carolina Democratic National Committeeman Edgar Brown...
...turncoat, an opportunist who plays footsie with the liberal Negro bloc." Even in Lyndon Johnson's home state, a poll of newspaper publishers showed that, by a majority of 16 to 14, they expected Nixon to carry Texas. New York Herald Tribune Reporter (and Nixon Biographer) Earl Mazo returned from the South breathlessly convinced that if the election had been held last week. Nixon would have swept the entire Old Confederacy...
...press itself recognized its considerable contributions to the Kennedy campaign. Said Columnist William S. White, who is also Washington man for Harper's Magazine: "The press was partly responsible for the [Kennedy] landslide. It made Kennedy's nomination inevitable days before it actually was." Earl Mazo, author (Richard Nixon: A Political and Personal Portrait) and national political correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, agreed: "Probably he'd have made it anyway, but the press gave him a big psychological boost by presenting his claims so affirmatively...