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Lost World. The reader first meets Adlai as a child sharing a platform with his grandfather-namesake (Vice President under Cleveland) and William Jennings Bryan. Like many another born orator, Adlai had no taste for the rhetoric of others, and he slept soundly through Bryan's bombinations...
Author Ives (two years Adlai's senior) evokes that lost Midwest world before the first of the great wars, where peace, prosperity, honor and family love composed the air the children breathed. In the big, chestnut-shaded house in Bloomington, Ill., with its adjoining pasture and quiet stream, the blue Dresden kerosene lamps were lit when distinguished guests arrived, and roses stood in silver bowls. It was also a high-minded, rather literary world (Adlai's maternal grandfather was publisher of the Bloomington Pantograph). Young Adlai played charades-once he enacted "a sunbeam on a rug"-and listened...
...BROTHER ADLAI (308 pp.)- Elizabeth Stevenson Ives and Hildegarde Dolson-Morrow...
Although he lost an election, Adlai Stevenson is a fortunate man, and not the least of the good graces attending his life is his sister Elizabeth. In her account of his youth, he seems a little like Frank Merriwell. Adlai could swim across large lakes (two miles in the creditable time of 1 hr. 16 min. 21 sec.), climb a Swiss mountain quicker than almost anyone (so the guide said), and play the mandolin. In her diary his sister recorded: "Today the girls [at camp] saw Adlai!! Tonight one of the girls fainted...
...Brother Adlai is the kind of book that might give a campaign manager a few uneasy moments. Some may well be disturbed by the recollection of young Adlai in an Eton collar-though it is carefully explained that he did not like it. And yet, on the whole, Mrs. Elizabeth ("Buffie") Stevenson Ives. wife of Career Diplomat Ernest Ives (now retired), has managed to avoid both sisterly gush and campaign-year platitudes. Author Ives was helped by a professional magazine writer. Hildegarde Dolson, but the book shows an authentic freshness. Buffie also displays a wry humor, as when she tells...