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...office. "I have always felt that I could contribute more as an independent private citizen than as a public officeholder," he explained. Others saw it differently, among them Biographer Margaret Coit, whom Baruch asked to write his story after he had read her Pulitzer Prizewinning study of John C. Calhoun. "Here, then, is the tragedy," she wrote. "Baruch, unwilling to face defeat-Baruch, who has always had to win-has taken refuge behind his legend...
...legislation on the military should come from the Department of Defense." In more political terms, Rivers, a 13-term Congressman who supported Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond for President in 1948, Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, and the national Democratic ticket since then, says: "I've got enough John C. Calhoun in me to believe that Congress has got a mission-and I'm not going to subvert it. John C. Calhoun was the greatest man in our history...
Even though he will have no teaching assignments, Hersey may find it hard to keep up his prolific writing and meet the time-consuming demands of the college. "It's a beast of a problem," confesses the Rev. B. Davie Napier, master of Calhoun and Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation. "It is a deep involvement in the lives of other people. But nobody has a chance to shape, improve, and inspire this collective education as the master does." Thomas G. Bergin, master of Timothy Dwight, who found time to write a new study of Dante, thinks...
...embraced old friends, sat on the floor, and drank beer with students twenty-five years his junior. A large man with a great shock of black hair, he looked like he would have been at home in the American Senate of the last century, trading stares with Webster and Calhoun. His energy appeared inexhaustable; the roles of journalist and professor, Yugoslav patriot and international intellectual, revolutionary and humanist seemed to struggle inside him with the fervor of old and friendly competitors. The tensions were there, but they were sources of strength, not weakness...
Somewhere in Boston today, someone will open his newspaper and see "Wrestling" scheduled to be televised over Channel 38. His mind swimming with visions of Haystack Calhoun and the Masked Manler, he will turn on his set and see Harvard's Howie Henjyoji, all 123 pounds of him, stalking to the center of the mat. The fan will switch off his set, muttering to himself "What kind of wrestling is that, anyhow...