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There was no doubt who was the political spokesman for the serious and intellectual college student of the 1950s. "Adlai Stevenson was the looming personification of the set of values we thought we were describing--humor, understanding, knowledge, lack of bombast," Rosenthal says. The senator's image as a sincere, but firm, peacemaker was echoed in the concern of many Harvard students who followed their education with stints in government service...
...wrote speeches for both Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign and served as ambassador to India under President Kennedy (a resident of Winthrop House in the 1930s, when Galbraith was a tutor there). Not surprisingly, a life of this variety yields a wealth of anecdotes and portraits told in his characteristicly elegant manner. Galbraith's insights into the characters of the famous men of the era are few, but he profiles several lesser-known individuals to delightful effect. Henry Dennison, a maverick New England business mogul of the 1930s and Leon Henderson, Galbraith's Hemmingwayesque superior at the OPA stand...
...offer him an office but little to do, he returned to FORTUNE, where he had been an intermittent contributor since 1943. In 1948 it was back to Harvard, and eventually a full professor ship. Galbraith's life cuts a pattern of exits and re-entries. Campaigning for Adlai Stevenson, for John Kennedy, and against the Viet Nam War fill important gaps; writing absorbs the overflow of his curiosity and energy. There are the bestselling books on affluence and industrialism, more popular works on the Depression and money, a journal and art book evolved from his years as Ambassador...
...bought the onetime home of Adlai Stevenson on Foxhall Road, with six bedrooms, 4½ baths, a circular drive, and 22-ft. gourmet kitchen. Asking price: $750,000. Secretary of State Alexander Haig for now is renting at the Colonnade, an elegant apartment building ten minutes from the State Department. Mrs. Haig thought she had found the right house, a five-bedroom Tudor-and even dragged the general away from some Inaugural festivities to look at it-but Haig decided that it was "not grand enough...
...education of Anthony Lewis had hardly begun. After working for Adlai Stevenson's campaign in 1952, he met an old-time Scripps Howard newspaperman, Lee Miller, who found Lewis a job with the now-defunct tabloid, the Washington Daily News...