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...full support by the Seoul government for his influence peddling in Congress. Witnesses also provided fresh details of President Park's personal role in the scandal. A former Korean CIA agent and first secretary in the embassy, Kim Sang Keun, discussed two bribery operations, "Ice Mountain" and "White Snow," and implicated President Park -whose own code name, Kim said, was "the Patriarch." Though he had, on orders from the Korean CIA, destroyed the Ice Mountain list of 40 to 50 Congressmen the agency wanted to buy, Kim said he remembered many of the names and had given them...
...George Levanter, an Eastern European refugee from Nazi and Soviet persecution, is a "self-employed idea man." In fact he works in some hazy free-lance fashion for a firm called Investors International and follows a circular itinerary from the Swiss Alps to Beverly Hills and back to the snow again...
...There is no necessity for the artist to do anything. There is no necessity. He is a law unto himself, and his greatness or smallness rises or falls by that," he wrote to his girl friend Pamela Hansford Johnson. Pamela went on to write successful novels and marry C.P. Snow. Thomas went on to craft melodic verse and marry Caitlin Macnamara, a former playmate of Augustus John's. She was, said a London acquaintance, "like the figurehead of a ship, a fantastic poet's girl, a sort of corn-goddess." Of her marriage to Dylan, Caitlin wrote...
Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor hail, nor dark of night will ever stop Sarah Mleczko from scoring her appointed share of goals...
Partridge, whom Edmund Wilson dubbed "the Word King," is already at work on a second, enlarged dictionary of catch phrases. His first effort has been praised by C.P. Snow for its "scholarly scrupulousness" and by George Steiner, who calls it a "sparkling, compendious work." Even so, each reader seems to find that a favorite phrase is missing or that an explanatory note is inadequate. Once that is remedied, the lexicographer says, he is through with major works. Eric Partridge fans have learned not to take him at his word. As he has written, there's life...