Word: adlai
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...Adlai Stevenson paused patiently time and again while scattered hecklers hoo ed and booed during his United Nations Day speech in Dallas' Memorial Auditorium Theater last week. When one crude superpatriot interrupted to shout a question about Stevenson's beliefs, Adlai, unruffled, replied: "I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance...
Twice, Gore came within hailing distance of the Democratic nomination for Vice President. The first time was in 1956, when Adlai Stevenson was looking for a running mate. Recalls Wife Pauline: "I had been picking vice-presidential bugs off Albert for a year, but when Governor Stevenson announced the nomination was open, I looked at Albert and discovered I had missed one and it already had bitten him." On the first ballot Gore, with 178 votes, trailed Fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver and hopeful Jack Kennedy; on the second he saw the handwriting, withdrew, and supported Kefauver, who won. Again...
Lisa has achieved this distinction by scrambling harder than six monkeys peeling the same banana. One night last week, she taped interviews with 1) Adlai Stevenson, 2) the suddenly unemployed employees at the New York Mirror, and 3) Dr. Benjamin Spock-all within three hours, dragging mobile cameramen behind her by their sagging tongues. Next day she trapped the Russian Cosmonauts under the stars at Hayden Planetarium...
...very reasonable man," says a fellow countryman, "but since De Gaulle . . ." It has been said that if Alphand feels slighted at a dinner, he grabs his chapeau and leaves. Once, at a dinner party given by "Scottie" Lanahan (daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald), Alphand discovered that Adlai Stevenson was scheduled to sit at the hostess' right. Alphand thought he ought to have that place of honor. After all, the French Ambassador outranks the U.S. Ambassador...
...Lanahan hastily juggled the place cards, and voila, poor Adlai finished second again...