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...face it, whether it was an eccentricity or madness, MacArthur's colossal egotism was what made him famous and then, in his fight with Harry Truman over the conduct of his last campaign, brought him down. It was what set him apart from the good gray men like Eisenhower, Marshall and Bradley, those modest servants of the democratic spirit on the battlefield. It made him one of the great characters in our military history. It is the great reason to do a film about him, and it is simply a shame to turn him into a dull fellow onscreen...
Died. Tom Campbell Clark, 77, former Supreme Court Justice (1949-1967); of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. The genial, Texas-born Clark came to Washington in 1937 and rose quickly in the Department of Justice, where he prosecuted war fraud cases. A close associate of Senator Harry Truman, he was appointed Attorney General when Truman became President, and an Associate Justice four years later. Clark initially aroused Truman's ire by joining the court's conservative wing, but gradually moved leftward as a member of the Warren Court. He wrote several far-reaching liberal opinions, including...
...Angeles suburb where he now lives, have attracted their share of hyperbole. One New York critic likened them to both Rubens' Marie de Medici cycle in the Louvre and Mantegna's frescoes in the Ducal Palace in Mantua - which may be the silliest indulgence since Truman Capote last compared himself to Marcel Proust. However, they are certainly among the most beautiful declamations in the language of the brush to have been uttered anywhere in the past 20 years...
...pictures on the oval walls are from Ford's time, most of the furniture too. Carter did resurrect Kennedy's desk, but its top is thinly populated. The Bible on which Carter placed his hand when he took the oath rests on one corner. Harry Truman's THE BUCK STOPS HERE sign stands beside a kicking glass donkey that was a present from Georgia Democrats. Near by is Admiral Rickover's memento: "Oh, God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small." They are stage props. The man lives elsewhere, perhaps down...
...popular cliche has been replaced by a more sophisticated pathfinder, a Sherpa of the subclause who is a combination salesman, packager, legal scholar, investment counselor and spiritual adviser. The archetype is, of course, the legendary Irving ("Swifty") Lazar, still going strong at age 70, whose clients have ranged from Truman Capote to ex-President Richard Nixon...