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...able to sign up with Warner Bros, and launch Sweet Baby James. Since James' return to the U.S. in December 1968, for another sojourn in a mental hospital (this time Austen Riggs in Stockbridge, Mass.), Asher, as friend and manager, has proved himself to be a sound guide, with shrewd bargaining abilities and an instinctive feel for the fast-shifting tastes of the pop-music world...
...comfortable middle age, should Shepard have even attempted a comeback? His place in history is secure; his life in Texas seems light-years away from the moon. A self-made millionaire (banking, real estate and other shrewd investments), he lives with his handsome wife Louise and daughter (his other daughter is married) in a pillared $150,000 house in the exclusive River Oaks section and hobnobs with Houston's social elite. He owns two cars (a Corvette and a Cadillac) and likes few things better than to water-ski in the wake of his 17-ft. power boat...
About politicians, Townsend is both bitter and occasionally shrewd. He presents well-researched episodes from the 1920s and 1930s, when air force commanders in both England and Germany struggled to strengthen their young units against the opposition of shortsighted, budget-obsessed political bosses. Even Churchill, as early as 1919 when he was Secretary of War, is described as having a "tendency to wobble when attacked." Townsend's sole hero on the ground is "Stuffy" Dowding, commander in chief of Britain's Fighter Command...
Nixon's reply, made through Assistant Secretary of State Martin Hillenbrand, demonstrated that he too understands the best uses of propaganda. In a shrewd and unprecedented gesture, he simply invited the 14 Russians to attend the trial to satisfy themselves that Miss Davis "will receive the same evenhanded treatment under the American system of jurisprudence as any other individual charged with a crime...
...Toward the end of his life-he died in 1969-it began to seem that Dirksen's most interesting achievement was himself: a rumpled travesty of Throttlebottom, Pekin, Ill., Polonius wreathed in consciously self-mocking fustian, a man at once shamelessly sentimental and uncommonly shrewd...