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Leading the way are all-Greater Boston League selections Vinnie Martelli (.429 batting average, 37 RBIs), Don Allard (.367, 16 doubles), Llliott Rivera (.330, 18 sacrifices) and Ed Farrell (.323, eight house runs...
...face of growing opposition to his candidacy, President Johnson went on the air in New Hampshire and declared that he was no longer a candidate for reelection. Allard Lowenstein, at first single-handedly and then as the leader of those who saw a cause, had stopped the President cold...
Lowenstein's greatest appeal was always to college-age men and women. He has been called the "world's oldest student leader," a "pied-piper" of young idealists. He enjoyed young people and befriended them, treated them as adults; it was not rare to find Allard Lowenstein, hours after a speech at a university, squatting Indian-style on the floor of a dormitory common room discussing, in an "uncannily lucid manner, what must be done about Rhodesia or Vietnam or Mississippi or Harlem." And young people identified with his "casual, rumpled eloquence" and followed him--to Mississippi in the Freedom...
WHAT MADE this "human tornado" tick? What gave him the energy to devote his life to cause after cause? Eleanor Roosevelt, who worked with Allard Lowenstein in the '50s, once explained that "he will always fight crusades because injustice fills him with a sense of rebellion. "His was a body that could not sit still, a mind that could not rest. "Whenever A1 came to see me," recalls Kennedy. I knew that he brought with him a challenge to be met, a wrong to be righted, a dream to be fulfilled. He would show up unexpectedly, he would pace...
Above all, Allard Lowenstein was not a quitter. He never seemed to stand a chance, but always continued the fight, often with success one could never have imagined. It seems fitting that, as one tribute notes, one of his favorite, film moments was a scene from The African Queen in which Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart emerge from an unnavigable jungle river. Told that the stream is clearly impassible, the feisty Hepburn raises her head and replies. "Nevertheless..." It is a word that applies well to the tragically truncated life and efforts of Allard Lowenstein...