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...through the mail. Affluent backers pay $500 and up to join Wallace "Patriots' Clubs" and lunch with the candidate when he comes to town. In Dallas last month, Wallace dined with such "plain folk" as Mrs. Nelson Bunker Hunt, daughter-in-law of Oil Billionaire H. L. Hunt; Paul Pewitt, who has a $100 million fortune from Texas oil and Idaho potatoes; and M. H. Marr, an oilman worth about $10 million. However much money he has, the average Wallace booster is what Political Analyst Samuel Lubell calls a "recent getter," someone who has worked hard for what...
...both good soldiers, thirty-year men who love the Army. Prewitt suffers from a naive belief that he has retained some individual rights; throughout the book, the Army's dealings with him consist of a vicious, continued assault on his self-respect. After brutal treatment in a disciplinary Stockade, Pewitt kills a guard and goes AWOL; in the end, he is shot by MP's while trying to rejoin his unit after Pearl Harbor...
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