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...excellent speaker, despite occasional traces of a childhood stammer, Lodge hopes to debate Independent Hughes ("to expose him for what he is-a socialist pacifist"), but is looking forward even more eagerly to getting Teddy on TV. "I just long to have him alone in debate. I would like it to be just the two of us and a moderator. Oh, how I would like that." But Lodge is also a realist. Says he: "I'm the underdog now at no better than 6 to 4." Vows Grindle: "We'll campaign 16 hours a day and pray eight...
Lots of people liked Julian Harvey. A handsome, curly-headed, flat-bellied man of 44, he was a familiar figure around the Florida ports where he worked as a captain and sometime seaman on chartered yachts. He was a weight lifter and a physical-fitness cultist, with a stammer that somehow seemed to enhance his charm. Moreover, he was as brave as he was likable. For 16 years Harvey had been in the Air Force. He flew in North Africa, Europe and the South Pacific during World War II. Between wars he won a special commendation for deliberately ditching planes...
...that role of salesman that Barry Goldwater has caught popular imagination. At his worst, Goldwater can stumble and stammer through carefully rehearsed texts. Fortunately, he is far more likely to toss away his prepared speech and make the same pitch in gutsy, give-em-hell language that puts the essence of his conservatism in metaphors of the man in the street. He talks neither up nor down to his audiences: he talks to them with obvious sincerity, and in so doing demolishes the stereotype of the conservative as the square in the Celluloid collar. For even his political opponents agree...
Fantastic though it seems, Author Yashar Kemal, 39, has lived much of his novel. Village-born, of Kurdish descent, Kemal was five years old when his father was murdered by an enemy while kneeling beside his son in the mosque. The experience left Kemal with a stammer, which he cured by chanting the traditional songs of Turkish troubadours. This folk poetry glows in his description of the bleak Anatolian land where, each spring, it seems as if "a green rain has fallen," and by midsummer, the high plateaus are blue with thistles "rippling like the sea." There is also...
...dressing table. Not merely the black statistics of murder, suicide, alcoholism and divorce betray anxiety (or that special form of anxiety which is guilt), but almost any innocent, everyday act: the limp or overhearty handshake, the second pack of cigarettes or the third martini, the forgotten appointment, the stammer in midsentence, the wasted hour before the TV set, the spanked child, the new car unpaid...