Word: cohen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sending the Republicans' top man "Ike" to Europe, and with Bushman the educated ape dead, Mr. Truman should have clear sailing for another four years in office. However, in four or five years the Democrats should have Mickey Cohen ready to replace Truman...
...Idea & the Man. Commentary is the joint creation of Editor Elliot E. Cohen and the American Jewish Committee, one of the oldest U.S. civil-rights organizations. The committee, which foots Commentary's bills, wanted a magazine that would exemplify the intellectual dignity of Judaism, and it picked Editor Cohen...
Iowa-born and Alabama-raised, Editor Cohen, 51, was brilliant enough to graduate from Yale at 19 and become managing editor of a small bimonthly, the Menorah Journal, at 24. While editing it for seven years, he showed a sharp eye for new talent, printed the first work of Lionel Trilling, Tess Slesinger, Albert Halper, Meyer Levin and a dozen other writers...
...idea of Commentary, says Editor Cohen, was "not to tell people what to think but to give them the material to think with." It is "libertarian," but against the "liberal cliches and stereotypes which pass as a substitute for thinking." One cliche Commentary most strongly opposed from the beginning: that there was a vast difference between the totalitarianism of the Russians and the Nazis...
...Cohen, one of F. D. R.'s so-called "Brain Trusters," will give a critical analysis of our foreign policy in Korea. Governor Paul A. Dever and James A. Wechsler, editor of the New York Post, will also address the delegates...