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Conant has made no other appearances this year before a private function of a University student organization. He shares the head table on Thursday with Chat Paterson, AVC national chairman, and Cord Meyer, Jr. of United World Federalists...
Tenniel was just the man to take Doyle's place. "If I have my own little politics," he once murmured, "I keep them to myself and profess only those of my paper." The Victorians most admired Tenniel for his illustrations to romances like Lalla Rookh and The Silver Cord, which today seem absurdly overemphatic. Tenniel's cartoons were something else again, his sharp jabs to the funny bone contrasted tellingly with the roundhouse rights of Punch's rivals. If his cartoons were not invariably from the heart, they always, like Tenniel's Alice illustrations (and like...
...middle-aged audience listened to him attentively, then engaged him in spirited debate. Cord Meyer is quick on his feet, sure of his position, talks fast, and is convinced that there is no time to lose...
...Cord Meyer Jr., 27, is a pale young man with a preoccupied smile and wavy brown hair. His paleness and his preoccupation are the marks of war: he was very nearly killed on Guam. He lost an eye and had his face shattered when a Jap grenade exploded in his foxhole.* Since his discharge from the Marines, Cord Meyer has been a young man on a crusade. He is the president of United World Federalists, which seeks to save the world through a limited federation before an atomic war destroys...
...Plan. Cord Meyer is the son of a wealthy New York real estate man and onetime diplomat. Before World War II, he was a top honor student at Yale and editor of the Yale Lit. After he was wounded and sent home from the Pacific, he married Mary Pinchot, the comely niece of Pennsylvania's late Governor Gifford Pinchot. He had got started on his crusade when he served as "veteran aide" to Delegate Harold Stassen at the San Francisco Conference. There he saw the United Nations born. He deplored the veto, which left U.N. virtually powerless to prevent...