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...When Adlai Stevenson showed up last week in Charlotte. N.C., newsmen noted his heavier tan and lighter humor (compared to his showing in Miami last month), but few other apparent changes. If not running for office, he was at least a man in motion. He was still glad-handing party pols and casting pearly wit before crowds (on his bothersome kidney stone: "A subversive element"). It was only in his major speech, wildly cheered by some 3,500 Carolina Democrats, that a bigger change showed...
Dean Edward S. Mason of the Graduate School of Public Administration said that no date has yet been set for next year's series of three lectures. In the past the Godkins have usually been given in late January, but Adlai E. Stevenson, this year's lecturer, delivered his talks during the week of March...
Asked at a news conference in Trenton, NJ. what the term "egghead" means to him, Adlai Stevenson quickly replied: "I don't know the origin. I would only have this to say: 'Eggheads of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks!' " Later, in North Carolina, where he went to visit his sister, Mrs. Ernest Ives, and play golf, Stevenson developed a sudden back pain, was whisked off to a hospital, where doctors decided he has nothing to lose but a kidney stone...
...visit to Milton Academy, a Massachusetts prep school, to see his son John, 18, Adlai Stevenson was asked by the lad whether all his speechmaking was netting any money. Stevenson: "I'm not making money, but I am serving the public welfare." John: "Well, Dad, don't you think it's about time...
...Tues. 10:30 p.m., CBS) program on the subject of McCarthy in action. When it went on the air, its impact was heightened by the course of events. While it was being prepared, McCarthy had successively locked in combat with the U.S. Army, Secretary Stevens, Adlai Stevenson, Senator Flanders and the White House. He had also fought a secondary action with the radio & TV networks themselves over his right to reply to Stevenson. In this supercharged atmosphere, Murrow's hard-hitting attack made a bang such as television had rarely registered...