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Escape & Study. No one could say just why Johnson had kept Katzenbach dangling for so long-except, perhaps, for the fact that Katzenbach was a Bobby man. A big (6 ft. 2 in., 210 Ibs.) man with an imposing expanse of bald scalp, Katzenbach is a son of a onetime New Jersey attorney general. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, was at Princeton when World War II broke out. As an Air Force navigator, he was shot down over the Mediterranean, captured, twice escaped from Italian prison camps, finally spent 20 months in a German prison camp. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: New Titles | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

...eldest son of F.D.R. A maverick, he started his political career as an ultraliberal California assemblyman but turned conservative, and vociferously antiCommunist, during two terms in the U.S. House and backed Republican Richard Nixon in 1960. That brought threats from regular Democrats to get Sam's scalp, but he went on to win an upset victory for mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: After Sam's Scalp | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

...right or left." Some Governors felt this skirted the dump-Burch issue. But three of the most influential men there-Pennsylvania's Scranton, New York's Rockefeller and Michigan's Romney-insisted that the resolution was really a clear-cut demand for Dean Burch's scalp, although nothing can be done officially until the National Committee meets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Toward a Broader View | 12/11/1964 | See Source »

Betwixt and between, Berger-Crabb is a spellbinding storyteller with a fine feel for frontier manners and morals and for fascinating Indian lore. And why didn't the Sioux scalp Custer? Jack Crabb knows (because he was there): Custer was getting bald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jack Crabb, Oldtimer | 10/16/1964 | See Source »

...Goldwater state G.O.P. leader is fearful of being dumped by the national party organization. Others fear that whether Goldwater purges or not, his zealous state and local supporters may try to do the job for him. In Colorado, for example, the Goldwaterites are already crying for the political scalp of Governor John Love, one of three Scranton supporters in the state's 18-man convention delegation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hand at the Helm | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

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