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...tempered chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1954 to 1960, whose vitriolic attacks on the Republican Party and sharp criticism of his own party's leadership kept him in a constant swirl of controversy; of a heart attack; in Washington. A party wheelhorse in Indiana and Stevenson backer before taking the national chairmanship over Harry Truman's bitter opposition, he provoked Southern Democrats with open criticism of their civil rights stand, attacked Lyndon Johnson and the late Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn for "moving too slowly toward a positive legislative program," had his last good scrap...
Died. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, 64, U.S. Ambassador to Spain, charming, perspicacious scion of one of Philadelphia's richest Republican clans, an early F.D.R. backer who at 38 left behind his playboy ways, a dozen corporate directorships and 22 club memberships for a career as a military and diplomatic troubleshooter that won friends and advantage for the U.S. in many nations; of a heart attack following the onset of lung cancer; at Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital. After stints as U.S. envoy to Norway and Poland, athletic, impeccably tailored Tony Biddle served brilliantly during the early days...
Success in Measles. An ever more insistent backer of live-virus vaccines, Enders was a bit dismayed that the U.S. took up killed-virus polio vaccine with such zest. He experimented for a while attenuating poliovirus, sent a sample to the University of Cincinnati's Dr. Albert Sabin (who went on to make workable live-virus polio vaccines), then turned back to basic research. In 1954 another of his research fellows, Thomas Peebles, fulfilled Enders' longstanding dream of growing measles virus (obtained from a prep school student named David Edmonston) in tissue culture. This time, aiming...
...North, the leading figures were just as disparate. Massachusetts' egg-bald, cockeyed Congressman Benjamin Butler in April 1860 was a Southern sympathizer and a devoted backer of Jeff Davis for President of the whole U.S.; he lived to be military governor of occupied New Orleans and became known throughout the South as "Beast" Butler. Illinois' Senator Stephen A. Douglas, with his massive head and dwarfish body, was a man in the middle; in his efforts to please North and South, he became anathema to both. Illinois' Republican Representative Owen Lovejoy had seen his older brother, an abolitionist...
...around $45 a share, he raised the ante to $50 ("I thought to myself, 'Oh, nuts, don't drag along' "). Meanwhile he had dispatched Post Managing Editor Alfred Friendly to Rome to secure a pledge from W. Averell Harriman. U.S. roving ambassador and an early Newsweek backer, to sell Graham Harriman's 13% Newsweek holding. Then, with Doubleday & Co., Inc. his only remaining competition, Graham helped the Astor trust officers make up their minds by offering hard cash, one-third of it borrowed from a New York insurance company. Getting Newsweek may ultimately cost Graham...