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Vacationing with his father in Alaska, John Fell Stevenson, 18, confided to a newsman that Adlai Stevenson still has no yen to live in the White House. Said young John: "He doesn't want to be President. He isn't campaigning. He is just helping the [Democratic] party pay off the deficit from the last campaign...
Smarting under the adamant refusal of Chicago's city building commissioner to give her a liquor license for her highbrow 1020 Art Center (TIME, May 24), Mrs. Ellen Borden Stevenson, ex-wife of Adlai Stevenson, resigned as president of the Modern Poetry Association. But she still planned to toss a few favors and dollars toward Poetry magazine, the flat-broke association's outlet for its members' rhymes, and to make her old family mansion a shrine for longhaired folks. Ever since her Gold Coast neighbors began objecting to the club's intrusion on their quiet life...
...McCarthy tried to horn in on the act, but the G.O.P. chose as its spokesman to answer Adlai Stevenson's Miami attack...
Died. Margaret Seligman Lewisohn, 59, educational leader; in an automobile crash (half an hour after Adlai Stevenson, whom she had given a lift, had left the car); near Shenandoah, N.Y. A trustee of Vassar and one of the founders of Bennington College, wealthy Margaret Lewisohn, was chairman of the board of trustees of the Public Education Association...
...unless I am asked again when I am 80. Now I must go. My friends would celebrate because I am in my 76th year. A strange reason. I will celebrate, too. I won't be late. I am never late." -In a television interview with Columnist Drew Pearson, Adlai Stevenson confessed that G.O.P. foreign policy is a perplexing thing to him, often leaves him mulling over who's really running the State Department. "We sometimes wonder who the Secretary of State might be," he said. "I was going to say Secretary of State (William F.) Knowland, Secretary...