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Named last week to be Under Secretary of State: Chester Bliss Bowles...
...floor of the Senate, one day in 1951, members broke into a bitter partisan wrangle over the confirmation of Chester Bowles as Ambassador to India. At one point, Ohio's prestigious Republican Robert Taft rose to speak. "He is not a diplomatic man!" said he. "I have had a great deal of experience with him." Bob Taft's succinct characterization of Chester Bowles gets general approval despite the fact that over a period of 20 years, Bowles has plowed through a long series of jobs that generally require the soft, sure touch of tact. What he lacked...
...five-room suite in the old Senate Office Building. Late one afternoon, he padded through the mild Georgetown air to visit with Neighbor Dean Acheson-thus sparking rumors that Acheson would surely have a job in the new Administration. Kennedy breakfasted at home one morning with Foreign Policy Adviser Chester Bowles, who looked a little dour upon leaving-thus sparking rumors that he had not been offered the kind of job he had hoped for. Kennedy got a visit, too, from New Mexico's Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez, who offered Kennedy a cigar. Asked the President-elect, smilingly...
...equally happy meeting of food, drink and the classics occurs every Sunday afternoon in New Haven, Conn., at a nightclub known as the Playback, which attracts fans like Author Thornton Wilder, Diplomat Chester Bowles and Composer Quincy Porter to hear serious music spiked with first-rate jazz. Playback is the plaything of Willie Ruff and Dwike Mitchell, the two jazzmen who touched off a modest international incident last year when they introduced cheering Russian audiences to the intricacies of the Cool. Equally at home in jazz and classical music (Ruff has a master's degree in music from Yale...
Among the 40,000 in the Stadium: Chester Bowles (Yale '24), Leverett Saltonstall '14, Neil McElroy '25, Barry Wood '32, and 'Thomas D. Bolles, just returned from a leave of absence to the Olympics. Conspicuous (somewhat) by his absenct: John F. Kennedy...