Word: winzola
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Martha Mitchell is being courted assiduously by New York publishers. Her autobiography, written with Journalist Winzola McLendon, will include such tidbits as the fact that Martha as a young girl knew Bebe Rebozo long before President Nixon did. An editor at Doubleday, a serious bidder for the book, described Martha enthusiastically: "Here was this woman, dismissed as a crazy blonde with good legs by those burly Nixon locker-room boys, and by God, she was telling the truth!" Meanwhile, former Vice President Spiro Agnew was encountering resistance in the literary world. Random House turned down his prospective novel: a whodunit...
...against John Mitchell's stiff upper lip, followers of the drama are now convinced that the end game has begun. In a phone call to U.P.I.'s Helen Thomas, Martha said that the former Attorney General had left their Manhattan apartment for a destination unknown to her. Winzola McLendon, a friend of Martha's who stayed with her after John's departure, revealed that the couple were communicating only through their lawyers. As for Martha's allegedly disturbed state of mind, the lady spoke for herself. Appearing on NBC in her first television interview...
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