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...damned liar," exploded the Chief Justice of the United States at a Washington cocktail party last week. Heads turned amid the crush of Justices, Senators, Congressmen and newsmen to see Earl Warren face off against Earl Mazo, 40, New York Herald Tribune reporter and author of the notably fair-minded new biography, Richard Nixon, a Political and Personal Portrait (see BOOKS...
Minutes after being introduced to Mazo, Warren attacked a passage of the book that opened up one of the old sores of California Republicanism: how Nixon won his 1950 Senate race without ever being endorsed by name by Republican Warren, then California's Governor. Author Mazo, complained the Chief Justice, was just trying to "promote the presidential candidacy of Nixon ... I don't care what you write about Nixon as long as you don't try to build him up over my body...
...during the 20-minute, standing-up conversation, Warren held clenched fists before him, handcuffed-style, said: "Look, I'm handcuffed, really handcuffed." As Chief Justice, he explained, he could not hold news conferences to refute "lying" stories, was powerless to defend himself. "Have you read the book?" asked Mazo. When Warren admitted that he had only read excerpts in Look magazine and some book reviews, it was Polish-born, South Carolina-raised Earl Mazo who blew up. Said he: "I hope to God for the sake of the country that your decisions are based on much more full...
Host Barnet Nover, Denver Postman and old Washington hand, finally succeeded in moving Warren and Mazo to a corner of the room, where they talked for nearly an hour. Finally, Earl Warren put his hand on Earl Maze's shoulder and said, "Come see me sometime to talk things over," and left...
...year 1927 is recorded in literary history as the year of Sinclair Lewis' Elmer Gantry. Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain and Willa Gather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, among other notable books, but for fans of Mazo de la Roche, the real importance of 1927 is that it saw the first of her Jalna novels. Now, 15 Jalna novels later, Author de la Roche has produced another volume in her indefatigable chronicle of the Whiteoak family of Ontario...