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Advocate alumni have found time, however, to do more in a literary way than the titles above would indicate. Among their ranks are not only Eliot, Aiken, and DeVoto, but George Lyman Kittredge, Charles Townsend Copeland, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, Van Wyck Brooks, e.e. cummings, Robert Hillyer, Malcolm Cowley, and James Laughlin. In the dramatic line, John Mason Brown, Lincoln Kirstein, and Leonard Bernstein were Advocateers. A few have even become political luminaries: Teddy and F.D. Roosevelt, as well as A.M. Schlesinger, Jr. Such a list is certainly a telling justification for the Advocate's existence. That the alumni...
...came to know as much about the opening of the American West as any man alive. His The Year of Decision: 1846 and The Course of Empire reopened that West for thousands of readers, and his Across the Wide Missouri won him the 1948 Pulitzer Prize in history. Actually DeVoto was historian to the whole nation. "I'm fed up," he once said, "with being thought of as a writer of only Western history. The general impression is that DeVoto is some kind of tributary to the Missouri River...
...Dumb to Know. In whatever he did, Bernard DeVoto was tributary to nothing. He was father confessor to scores of Harvard students who, he thought, had a sincere desire to be writers. But when it came to sham-either academic or political-he could be merciless. Occasionally, his reputation for sounding off on everything, whether big or small, tended to becloud his reputation as a serious scholar...
Last week Benny DeVoto came to Manhattan to appear on TV. He got through the program, was chatting with friends afterwards when a fatal heart attack struck him at 58. He had been a man whose judgment was sometimes off balance, but whose rampages helped keep a generation on its toes. His proudest boast appeared in his last collection of Easy Chair articles published a few weeks ago: "No one has got me to say anything I did not want to say and no one has prevented me from saying anything I wanted...
...third Pulitzer Prizewinner to die within seven days. The others: Robert Emmet Sherwood (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES), Bernard DeVoto (see EDUCATION...