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Here in Los Angeles vodka has been run over by a contraption known as a Mexican Edsel-half tequila, half V8. (Wow! It sure doesn't taste like tomato juice...
...Wow for Wayne. In any case, declared the Red leader, Communists and other leftists must coalesce to elect an "independent" candidate for President in 1968 to replace Lyndon Johnson. Did he have anyone in mind? Well, allowed Hall, Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse had been "playing a big role in peace." The only problem was that Morse himself last week came out for Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968, while Bobby announced that he was for L.B.J. On the other hand, as an ex-Republican and a currently restive Democrat, Morse would certainly be a novel kind of candidate...
...impressive smattering of all the scholastic disciplines gleaned from faculty clientele. In fact, he likes Mona so much that in one of the most sadly comic episodes in the book, he takes her home and introduces her to his parents. Mom is horrified; Dad is too, but-wow, that sweater...
...Double Life. But he was troubled. "Musically speaking," he recalls, "I was leading a double life. At home, I was a different man. I loved the classics, but I knew I could wow any audience with De Falla's Fire Dance. I was too little involved in the job I had to do, which was to develop my talent." Then in 1926 he met Aniela ("Nela"), the handsome, honey-blonde daughter of Polish Conductor Emil Mlynarski. She was 17, he was 39. When he finally got around to proposing to her beneath the Chopin monument in Warsaw, Nela was doubtful...
...rugged drinking problem... Old men can't take that. Young men drink. Yes." Sometimes he talks rather wildly about looking forward to growing old, "Old men can really cut loose. You should see those Old White Russian Aristocrats at any Salvadore Dali opening. Can they dress. WOW!" But it doesn't work. Tom Wolfe is the prisoner of an historical minute, which, if he didn't invent it, owes much of its definition and publication to his good offices. But soon there will great big cosmic TICK-TOCK and Wolfe will be on the wrong end or the freeway...