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...politician. As chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, McMahon had taken on the mantle of an atomic statesman, and he kept it wrapped determinedly about him. He paid no attention to his Republican opponent, ex-Congressman Joseph Talbot of Naugatuck (Yale LL.B. '25), another old school politico who was picked partly because he was, like McMahon, a Roman Catholic. Big and old-shoe friendly, Talbot toured the state in a blue-and-yellow sound truck emblazoned: "No red on my bandwagon," and accused Democrats of being naive about Communists...
...President of the republic (TIME, June 5). I wish to state firmly once more my unbreakable decision . . . not to accept such an intent, and to call on persons working for that end to desist." The Congressmen's responding roar was the day's most deafening. Every ambitious politico among them heaved a great sigh of relief as he saw the track cleared for the 1952 race. Very likely one of the aspirants present in the hall might be the winner. All he had to do now was go out and get the right backing-most particularly the backing...
...novel. Yet, at the same time, Ross clearly feels a futility in the brand of liberalism he professes. In this confusion of feelings, he apparently could not decide whether to satirize or eulogize his intellectual liberal hero; so he did both. The result is a hectic sort of politico-literary game of tail-the-donkey, combining some elements of post office. What rescues the book from total muddlement is his ironic conception of the intellectual liberal as "the man who lived backward...
...Tickle of the Flesh. The ambitious, foredoomed politico this time is restless, willful Jeremiah Beaumont who grew up in backwoods Kentucky, realizing that "I could not take the world as other men for the brightness of the moment and the tickle of the flesh." Apprenticed to Colonel Cassius Fort, a rousing linsey-woolsey lawyer who was leading the poor farmers' fight for "relief" from land debts, Jeremiah fell in love with Rachel Jordan, who had been seduced by Cassius Fort and delivered of a stillborn baby. At first she refused him. Then, in a series of extravagantly emotional scenes...
Glory in the Gloom. Yet John was no truckling politico. When he thought that the partisans were at fault in the Boston Massacre and that the accused British soldiery would not get a proper defense, he fearlessly risked his life and career to defend them against the charge of murdering five colonists in cold blood. By hard lawyer logic Adams forced the jury to acquit all except two, who were found guilty of manslaughter. Meanwhile, despite the side he had taken in the case, his townsmen elected him as representative to the legislature, even though he did not bother...