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...speech that claimed he was being framed by the Justice Department and, by implication, Nixon himself. The Republican women in his Los Angeles audience cheered him to the rafters, but no nationwide ground swell of public opinion developed to lift him high. "Everything was downhill after L.A.," says Marsh Thomson, Agnew's press aide. "The point was driven home to him that he was 'dead.' The limb had been sawed...
...seven years at Harvard, Jim Thomson has been one of the warmest, most sensitive, and most humane people in a university not always known for any of these traits. His humor, kindness, and wisdom have benefit text not only the Niemans, but many of the rest of us as well, Jim Thomson's departure is a deep loss for Harvard, and a great gain for any place lucky enough to have him. Cliff Sloan...
Arthur Maass, Thomson Professor of Government...
...early 30s, with no experience whatsoever, Houseman found himself in Harlem, directing the first production of the Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson opera Four Saints in Three Acts. Not long afterward he became Orson Welles' principal collaborator in the renowned and innovative Mercury Theater. In 1955, when this third volume of his memoirs resumes, Houseman is about to rescue the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Conn., after its wobbly first year. He has just finished a stint as a movie producer (Julius Caesar with Marlon Brando; Lust for Life with Kirk Douglas). He goes on to direct some...
...their patrons have deserted them for restaurants in France and Italy; Los Angeles Restaurateur Paul Bruggemans, eyeing his semi-deserted Le St. Germain, says, "Europe is the big bonanza." "We are seeing a tremendous bounce back of vacations in Europe," says Richard Roberts-Miller, president of Chicago-based Thomson Vacations, a big worldwide tour operator. "Those who haven't traveled for a couple of years are going on a binge, and the market is going through the roof...