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...THAYER'S LIFE OF BEETHOVEN edited by Elliot Forbes. 1 volumes, 1,136 pages. Princeton...
...leaving none for the day-by-day business of living. The human Beethoven could not add, could not learn the rules of grammar, and could not master his emotions. For a time, his biographers were able to ignore these facts. But in 1866 the first volume of Alexander Wheelock Thayer's great Life appeared, and Beethoven biography has not been the same since...
Most of the pressure on Ike came from anti-Goldwater people, specifically including Milton Eisenhower, Minnesota's former Governor Elmer L. Andersen and, very actively, New York Herald Tribune President Walter N. Thayer...
...convinced. At that point, he agreed to write a Republican "profile"-without mentioning names-that would detail the kind of G.O.P. candidate Ike really favors. Eisenhower started to draft the statement in his Gettysburg office on May 19, went to New York on May 22 and showed it to Thayer, handed a finished copy to Thayer in Gettysburg the next day, then phoned in some last-minute changes to the Herald Tribune...
...crack about avoiding "impulsiveness" in foreign affairs, struck at least obliquely at Goldwater. Worse, after the 1960 presidential election, Goldwater had scoffed at the same party platform that Ike now praised so highly by saying, "We lost on it." To make sure no one missed the point, Thayer's Tribune planted a column by Pundit Roscoe Drummond squarely alongside the Eisenhower text. Said Drummond's lead paragraph: "If former President Eisenhower can have his way, the Republican Party will not choose Senator Barry Goldwater as its 1964 presidential nominee." And the New York Times headlined its Page...