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Settling back to enjoy the election-year bawlgame between Democrats and Republicans, New York voters discovered last week that the starting lineups were far from firm. Moreover, they needed political scorecards to recognize players fighting for positions on each team. Items: ¶ Seven-term Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, 49...
Handlin himself suggests that Smith was more of a politician than a Catholic for most of his life. Yet the author, not unmindful of Senator Kennedy, seems more concerned about religion than politics, for which he has little feel. The worst example of this nearsightedness on politics arises in contrasting...
Handlin has some good insights into life on New York's East Side. This part of his book is often fascinating, as he catches the flavor of Smith's early years quite well. Smith emerges as a cocky, jaunty politician, the man who reorganized New York's State government and...
Twentieth Century: In CBS's Gandhi, the scrawny, jug-eared little man in the white loincloth looked as Author John Gunther once saw him: an inscrutable "combination of Jesus Christ, Tammany Hall, and your father." Fuzzy images from old films showed the gentle ascetic all but engulfed by the...
"I'll Go for It." By the 1956 convention in Chicago. Jack Kennedy was back in business. He narrated the party film, The Pursuit of Happiness, which was premiered at the convention, and he made a nominating speech for Adlai Stevenson. But Adlai, after winning, threw the vice-presidential...