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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would assume an independent and direct attitude, and this you have done. Your support of ... Eisenhower ... I both understand and respect ... I find myself in complete agreement with [Stevenson's] aims . . . This letter is ... in no way intended ... to influence your attitude . . ." Editor Field, who was the biggest contributor ($7,100) to Stevenson's 1948 gubernatorial campaign and who still rents Stevenson's 70-acre Libertyville, Ill. estate, noted tersely: "The letter . . . does not alter or diminish this newspaper's advocacy of Eisenhower for President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 20, 1952 | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...much over 4,000, and the magazine has never paid its own way. The editors have been able to solve this problem by buttonholing well-to-do well-wishers. Nowadays the head of the fund-raising committee is Mrs. Ellen Stevenson, ex-wife of Adlai Stevenson, herself an occasional contributor to Poetry. But over the years, editors have been confronted with another problem even graver: somewhere along the line, U.S. poetry ceased to fizz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry's 40th | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

Biggest single contributor was Marshall Field Jr., publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, which is now supporting Dwight Eisenhower. His specified contribution was $7,100, but a note indicated that he had given more on an "anonymous" basis. Among other contributors: the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers and United Steelworkers unions, $2,500 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Glass House | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...Each contributor was asked to write about his favorite saint. Two saints, Francis of Assisi and the Spanish mystic John of the Cross, were selected twice. Poet Noyes has written about St. John the Evangelist as the most "intuitive" of the Apostles. George Lamb, a young British Catholic, discusses St. Simeon Stylites, the 5th century hermit who spent 37 years sitting on a pillar. Psychiatrist Karl Stern writes about St. Théreèse of Lisieux, a bourgeois French girl who died in 1897, at 24, in a Carmelite cloister. Also included: one Pope, Pius V; two Jesuits, Ignatius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Timely Saints | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...that the next Congress will try to solve the problem of the poor man in politics, a problem which Nixon dramatically posed last Tuesday. Even the Governor of Illinois has faced the problem, and his answer has if nothing else an advantage over Nixon's in that no private contributor knows who he is helping support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poor Richard | 9/25/1952 | See Source »

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