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...happens that I have a nephew who is attorney general of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts," thundered Democratic Majority Leader John McCormack in the U.S. House of Representatives last fortnight. "Not so long ago, a federal judge in Boston threatened him with contempt of court. Well, anyone who declares war on the McCormacks ought to know that a McCormack is always ready to join the issue-and the war is on until peace terms have been offered by the one who declared the war." No sooner had McCormack sat down than Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee...
...Wyzanski-McCormack feud is a family affair, arising from a misunderstanding. As attorney general of Massachusetts, McCormack's nephew, Edward McCormack Jr., had prepared a case against 18 road-paving companies, accusing them of conspiracy to fix prices in public highway construction. Mindful of the interests of 39 cities and towns that had done business with the firms, he fired off letters advising each community that it would have to file suit for triple damages before a certain deadline. Only nine of the towns made the deadline- and Wyzanski mistakenly decided that McCormack had somehow finagled the others...
...aftermath, Cubans bitterly blamed the U.S. and were less inclined to acknowledge the harm done by their own internecine quarreling. But they had paid dearly, too. Miró's own son was Castro's prisoner. Varona's son, two brothers and one nephew were missing. So was Council Member Antonio Maceo's son. The Revolutionary Council held a funereal press conference in the tinseled gaudiness of the Moderne Room of Manhattan's Belmont Plaza. Still playing by the rules, Miró gamely denied that...
...Oregon-born son of a Texas college president, Everett is the great-great-great-nephew of one of history's unlucky men: Edward Everett, the Massachusetts Senator (and onetime Harvard president) who delivered the two-hour "main" Gettysburg address, only to be upstaged in two minutes by Abraham Lincoln. Swift descent also once felled John Everett, when at 15 he took a sleepwalking dive from a third-floor window, breaking 36 bones and earning 4-F status in World...
Purdy has too great a talent for story-telling and fictional observation to waste it further on books as uninteresting as The Nephew. There are many novelists who can make its affirmative themes convincing. Purdy has deliberately chosen to do what he has not tried before and failed. Though it may be wrong to blame an artist of Purdy's caliber for trying something different, I feel I am unable to do otherwise. If he is to continue as one of America's most exciting younger writers, Purdy must realize that his first novel was his best. Its vision...