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"It couldn't happen in a million years," writes Harold Gauer in "War and Peace in the 1940s" (Precision Process
Books, 283 pp., 130 illustrations, $19.95). "Who would put up with two feckless youths who emerged from the woodwork
claiming to be political masterminds, without any backgroun, without a job record of doing anyting!
"Not only that, they won a big victory! In the 12th largest city in the US. With a young candidate who never uttered a word
that The Authors did not put in his mouth, who never let fly any idea or proposition that his young mentors did not
originate."
The two mentors were Gauer himself, then 25, and his story-writing pal, Robert Bloch, decades later to become world-famous for
his horror novel, "Psycho." Gauer, now 77 and a Glendale resident, was for almost four decades the Midwest director of CARE,
the worldwide relief organization.
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