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...strong Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Kennedy left Ike-appointed Thomas Mann in temporary charge of the State Department desk, but gave policy shaping to Old New Dealer Adolf Berle, 66, chairman of a special Latin America task force. Kennedy also assigned Arthur Schlesinger as a one-man presidential troubleshooter for the continent, later gave Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, 29, responsibility for Cuban affairs. At the time of the Bay of Pigs debacle, Kennedy called Rostow and Bundy away from their paper planning on Laos to give advice on Cuba; Nitze and Attorney General Robert Kennedy added their...
Worthington Miner, who has had a hand in producing such TV milestones as Studio One and Play of the Week, told the committee that sponsors often insist on contracts specifying a minimum number of killings or shootings per program. He also went out of his way to serve as a sort of one-man Berlitz course in Madavenue lingo. Example: "longterm recall" is something vital that admen ascribe to viewers who remember a given show for more than, say, ten minutes. But Miner's outstanding contribution was one of those sponsor-interference anecdotes that spring from...
...correspondents. Its best feature is its occasional irreverence: New York Times's Elie Abel makes Defense Secretary Robert McNamara a character of almost comic naiveté when he tells of his bewilderment at discovering that some admirals and generals do leak secrets to reporters. The Kennedy Government, a one-man effort by Stan Opotowsky, author (The Longs of Louisiana) and political writer for the New York Post, is fairly cohesive, but his partisanship gleams through occasionally, and there are indications of hasty reporting. The portraits in both books are sharp and journalistically clear, but the question remains why they...
...one of those mysterious underground (or as Miller would put it, "Chthonian") movements has been rumbling about the name and personality of Henry Miller, and a committee-sized panel of names has been assembled by the publishers to "welcome Miller among the elect." The encomiums range in warmth and weight from T. S. Eliot to Kenneth Patchen. He is not only the Buddha of the beatniks, but Lawrence Durrell asserts that ''American literature today begins and ends with the meaning of what he has done." He has been called, or called himself a "saint." "Caliban," "a one-man...
...Drafted into the Wehrmacht at 18, he continued his musical education at Heidelberg and Paris, soon decided that "old-style music sounds pale and insufficient." He spent the next 15 years rattling off dozens of chamber works, symphonies, ballets and operas that earned him a name as a one-man revival of German music...