Word: chris
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul Dever, a seasoned performer and a spellbinder among the masses, who had croaked his way to national TV fame as keynoter at the Democratic Convention last summer, had looked like a shoo-in winner. Herter, the slender aristocrat, was his exact antithesis. As a friend put it bluntly, "Chris never did have that indefinable something that makes children and dogs follow him down the street." But in his campaign, Herter combined polite persuasion (best effort: small pizza parties arranged by friends) with a slam-bang attack on Dever's record ("Dever . . . has become the tool of the contractors...
...settled in Paris. He married Adele McGinnis, a portrait painter, grew a Vandyke beard, and lived a carefree expatriate life in a pleasant apartment near the Arc de Triomphe. By the time his second son, Christian Archibald, was born in 1895, Albert Herter was a successful muralist, and young Chris came into a world of culture and comfort, if not luxury. German, learned from his governess, was his first language, and by the time he was ready for grammar school he was talking French and English as well...
...Chris married Mary Caroline Pratt, daughter of a straitlaced, enormously wealthy Standard Oil family, which looked askance at the peripatetic young son-in-law and his artistic family. Not long after the wedding, Chris left his bride and went to Switzerland with a special diplomatic mission to draw up a prisoner-of-war agreement. When the armistice was signed he made a quick reconnaissance of prison camps in Germany, was appalled to find red armbands and symptoms of Communism everywhere. Back in Switzerland he wired a friend from Berlin to come and meet him. "What...
...deafness, was unable to follow the proceedings. After the treaty he wandered over ravaged Europe with Food Commissioner Herbert Hoover, came back a confirmed believer in collective security. In 1921 Hoover became Secretary of Commerce under Warren Harding and brought Herter to Washington as his secretary. But Chris had nothing but contempt for the Harding Administration ("Washington is a dirty kitchen," he wrote later, "where cockroaches abound"), and he began to look around for a way out. The way came when he moved to Boston to become the salaryless co-editor and co-owner of Henry Ward Beecher...
...going to be an Eisenhower draft at the convention, coming from the grass roots, you're very much mistaken . . . You've got to let your friends know where you stand . . ." Ike did not commit himself, but he invited Herter to lunch, put him on a "Chris" basis, and spent two hours discussing politics after lunch. Herter was firm on one recommendation which was later adopted: Ike should be presented as a product of the Middle West, not of "Eastern internationalists." Herter came home to get in touch with Kansas Eisenhower backers, urging them to set up an organization...