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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1963
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WASHINGTON (UPD-Every
four years candidates for pres
ident go through a ritual dance
and at the moment Sen. Barry
Goldwater is doing what our
grandparents called "the hesi
tation waltz." You act like you
are about to take a step but
. don't quite do it.
Goldwater will announce in
January whether he is a can
didate for the Republican nom
ination for president. If he says
no, it will be the biggest politi
cal upset since Harry Truman
defeated Thomas E. Dewey. On
the basis of all available evi
dence we are going to assume
that Goldwater is running for
president right now and is run
ning hard.
And running in front. Every
political poll shows him ahead
for the GOP nomination, along
with an unscientific one this re
porter took on the sidewalks of
Washington. It was an attempt
to find out why Goldwater is
leading, and 10 persons who fa
vored the Arizona senator were
questioned.
Ten Give Reasons
Four said because he was
against the income tax and two
of them said he favored abol
ishing it.
Four said he would get
tough with Khrushchev and the
Communists, and one of them
volunteered the opinion that
Goldwater planned to send the
United States Marines to Cuba
to throw Fidel Castro out of of
fice.
One said "Goldwater isn't
afraid of anybody and that's
what we need to clean up the
Kennedy mess."
One said she had been for
Nelson Rockefeller before his
divorce and remarriage but
switched to Goldwater because
he is a good family man and
a good father."
Obviously some of the sena
tor's followers have a hazy or
downright erroneous idea of
what he stands for. Goldwater
has no intention of abolishing
the income tax and it is highly
unlikely that if he were elected
president he would order the
Marines into Cuba without pro
vocation. There is nothing unusual
about voters being confused on
the issues and, in fact, profes
sional politicians rate the can
didate's overall image far
above his pledges. Dwight D.
Eisenhower writes in his cur
rent memoirs that he was
shocked after winning the pres
idency when the professionals
told him to forget about the
platform on which he ran.
Projects Fearless Image
The image Goldwater pro
jects at the moment is that of
a hell-for-leather, fearless man
out of the West. Lyle C. Wilson,
United Press International's
vice president for Washington,
who has seen politicians come
and go, rise and fall, for more
than 30 years, analyzes Goldwa
ter's political appeal this way:
"He sounds like a forthright,
earthy politician who doesn't
take himself too seriously. He
gives the appearance of not be
ing afraid to stand up and be
counted. He seems to have a
real enthusiasm for slugging it
out with Kennedy.
Goldwater strides on to the
political stage at a time when
many Americans are showing
stress and strain from the day
to-day pounding of events. A
recent Gallup poll documented
this vague dissatisfaction with
few
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By BENNETT CERF
A BROKER'S ASSISTANT in Wall Street was embarrassed
to discover, after eating a substantial lunch, that he had
left all his money in another suit. The owner of the res
taurant considered the
ami
am
situation for a moment,
then chalked up the cus
tomer's name, plus the
amount of his bill, or. a
board br-'-vd the cashier's
desk. "Please don't do
that," implored the bud-,
ding financial wizard.
"All my co-workers eat
here. What will they say
when they see what you
have written1!"
"They won't see it, my
boy," the owner of the
restaurant assured him.
"Your overcoat will be hanging over it."
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On the maid's day out, a prominent publisher volunteered to
tackle the. Herculean task of putting their four-year-old to bed
The exhausted wife threw herself on the chaise lonfruc and picked
up the evening papevs. Aa hour lalcr the four-year-old stole UlU
the room and whispered, "Daddy's asleep at last!"
A teen-ager demanded an autograph from Sue Lyon, th
young star of "Lolita," then explained, "It's not for me, yoi
understand. It's for my grandfather."
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Venus De Mio To Grace Olympics
PARIS (UPD-The French
government has given permis
sion to the world s most cele
brated figure 51-38-47 to grace
Tokyo with her charms during
next year s Olympics.
Still the reigning queen of
feminine perfection, Venus De
Milo will be carefully lifted
from her surroundings at the
Louvre museum and whisked
by jet to Japan.
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CHICAGO (UPD-The piano
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ond most widely played musi
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States, the American Music
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EARLY CAMPAIGNER Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., turns
to his aides in wonderment, upper photo, as he is met with a rash
of "Goldwater for President" signs on a visit to San Francisco
last June. In the lower photo, Goldwater and his wife, left near
his shoulder, receive an enthusiastic welcome from supporters
upon arriving at Concord, N. H., airport in October. (UPI)
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Joe
E. Lewis, one of America's best
loved tosspots, came here re
cently to deliver a series of in
temperance lectures at a local
lyceum called the Blue Room.
Lewis likes the Blue Room
because of its decor, which
matches the color of his jokes.
A press agent was telling me
that Lewis would make good
column material because he
- had become successful doing
things that are supposed to be
the ruination of man.
" In his public image, at least,
he has made a career of drink
ing to excess, chasing after
young girls and squandering his
dough at the race track.
In my opinion, however, this
press agent had the wrong an-
' gle.
The truth is that vices are a
glut on the market. Practically
everyone you meet nowadays
has a complete matched set of
minor transgressions.
Discuss Sin
I wouldn't say that people sin
more than they used to, but
they surely do spend more time
discussing it.
You sit down by a stranger
on a bus and the chances are
that by the time you reach your
stop he has told you that he
drinks too much and is cheat
ing on his wife.
' You go to a party and it's a
good bet you will spend the en
tire evening listening to some
blowzy dame in a sequined
dress relate the experiences of
a compulsive gambler.
The tendency of people to
blurt out indiscretions that 30
years ago they wouldn't have
contessed on a torture rack has
reached alarming proportions.
Depravity has become a real
drag.
Things are coming to the
point where I would rather
have people tell me about their
hernia operations.
Makes Subject Entertaining
What makes Lewis unusual,
then, is not that he talks about
his foibles in public but the fact
that he can make such com
monplace subjects entertaining.
After 40 years of steady dis
sipation, Lewis claims that he
still has "the body of a child
a weak, pale, sickly child."
Why does he continue to drink
so much? "I am carrying a
torch for Jessica Dragonette,"
he explains.
Small wonder that he should
go through life thinking that
Hyannis Port was the brand
name for a "sweet kosher
wine." Or that he would speak
well of overindulgence.
"Show me a man who can
hold his liquor and I will show
you a serious kidney condition"
is his philosophy.
I don't know how much Lew
is gets paid but he deserves
every cent. It takes real talent
to uphold the standards of pro
fessional debauchery in the face
of so much amateur competition.
the state of the nation when it
asked citizens of many coun
tries whether they were satis
fied with their position in the
world. Fifty-one per cent of the
Americans interviewed were
dissatisfied. The happiest peo
pl were in Switzerland, West
C.rmany, Denmark, Norway
and France.
We Americans build up hope
that the nuclear test ban treaty
means a thaw in the cold war
and then our hopes are chilled
when the Russians blockade the
Berlin highway. We are prom
lsed a reduction in taxes ana
the next thing we hear is that
we may not get one because
Congress cannot agree on de
tails. We are cheered by
Khrushchev's removal of mis
siles from Cuba, but apprehen
sive when we learn Russians
are still on the island.
Racial Tension High
Our home town, whether north
or south, lives every day under
the threat of racial dissension
and perhaps violence. We are
irritated by the sting of iodine
applied to minor wounds caused
by Madame Nhu's practice of
biting the hand that helped her.
We vearn for a clear-cut victory
somewhere over somebody. We
doubt the ancient maxim that
half a loaf is better than no
bread.
More than any other man in
political life Goldwater has
been promising us a quick and
sure cure for our frustrations.
William Rees-Mogg, political
editor of the Sunday Times of
London, wrote on a recent
tour of the United States that
Goldwater symbolized for many
of us an unconscious desire to
return to the previous century
and specifically to the Western
frontier. The issues were simple
for our forefathers in the West,
the federal government was le
nient and far away and, within
the boundaries of farm or
ranch, every man was pretty
much a king.
Goldwater looks like a fron
tiersman. He is tall, lean,
tanned, an active outdoorsman
and pilots his own plane. Even
his speech has a ring of the old
West. "I'm a poker player," he
said while discussing the presi
dency. "I'm sitting with a pair
and 1 don t Know wnai me
draw will be. If it's a good one,
I'll say yes." His speeches
arc punctuated with occasional
"hells" and "damns" and the
other day a woman in Medford,
Ore., gently suggested to him
in a letter that this was no way
for the next president of the
United States to talk.
Goldwater's political oppon
ents have noted this back-to-the-good-old-days
appeal. Sen,
Jacob Javits, a Republican
from New York who doesn't
agree with Goldwater on many
things, put it this way: "He
kind of satisfies a hankering
for five-cent beer and a five-
cent cigar. It's good old fash
ioned conservatism of another
day, but it doesn't belong to
day."
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