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...Wynn, who died of throat cancer last week at 79, had been opening doors in a funny way ever since he was a kid in Philadelphia. Then he was Isaiah Ed win Leopold, who used to upset his mil liner father by putting on ladies' hats and mincing around the showroom like a prospective customer. At 16, he split his middle name in two and became Ed Wynn, and soon he was "The Boy with the Funny Hats" - a turn in which he twisted a trick fedora into 28 shapes...
...Javits never forgets his role. He has grown so used to the limelight that the public figure and the private man have fused and become virtually indistinguishable; his handsome wife Marion complains, only half in jest, that even at home he will not answer a question without clearing his throat and buttoning his coat. When approached by a streetwalker late one night in Manhattan, the Senator introduced himself, shook her hand and proceeded to solicit her vote. He loves his eminence and supports it with a sober single-mindedness matched by few, if any, of his colleagues...
...Odin's foreskin!, as the author says. What isn't in this belly-gutting, god-rotting typhoon of a book? In his bestselling first novel King Rat, James Clavell may have been only clearing his throat for this one, which seems every bit as long as it is. Its narrative pace is numbing, its style is deafening, its language penny dreadful. All the characters whirl like dervishes, especially Dirk Struan, a kind of Scottish superman who can borrow $5,000,000 in silver ingots from an Oriental tycoon, invent binoculars, and corner the world supply of cinchona bark...
...Connally's wounds were not caused by the same shot that struck Kennedy in the throat, there must have been two marksmen, since two shots could not have been aimed and fired so quickly from the bolt-action rifle which Oswald used...
Under pressure to complete the Report well in advance of the upcoming 1965 Presidential election, however, the Commission finally agreed unanimously to a statement that the evidence was "very persuasive...to indicate that the same bullet that pierced the President's throat also caused Governor Connally's wounds," Epstein says...