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Twenty residents of the nation's intellectual community promptly rushed forth in public support of Lowell. Among them were Novelists Mary McCarthy, Philip Roth and Bernard Malamud; Critics Alfred Kazin and Dwight Macdonald; Poets John Berryman, W. D. Snodgrass and Alan Dugan. None of them had been invited to the White House, but that didn't make any difference...
Lindsay also was asked if he would welcome support from Dwight Eisenhower. "I'd like to fight it out alone," said Lindsay. "I don't think the public will vote for me simply because a distinguished person says they should." It somehow seemed odd that a rather junior Congressman should be turning down aid that even a Democratic President of the U.S. does not hesitate to enlist: rarely does a week go by that Lyndon Johnson does not consult Ike either by telephone or by White House emissary...
...Davie Napier, master of Calhoun and Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation. "It is a deep involvement in the lives of other people. But nobody has a chance to shape, improve, and inspire this collective education as the master does." Thomas G. Bergin, master of Timothy Dwight, who found time to write a new study of Dante, thinks that the job gives "a sense of being in contact, keeping up with the young...
Herbert Hoover got his in 1917; Franklin Roosevelt '04 was honored in 1929; Dwight Eisenhower picked one up in 1946; and John Kennedy '40 stopped by ten years later, when he was still junior Senator from Massachusetts. All of these doctors, it will be noticed, were given degrees before they assumed the office of the Presidency--the same holds true for George Washington LL.D. (hon.) 1776, John Adams 1755, LL.D. (hon.) 1781, and Thomas Jefferson LL.D. (hon.) 1787--and no doubt the Corporation had second thoughts later on. But there are precedents: Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson, Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant...
...ever become a general," the gentleman advised the young Army Reserve lieutenant standing guard at the World's Fair. "If you become a general you just plain have too much to worry about." Coming from Dwight D. Eisenhower, 74, that was certainly something to think about. Next day the old soldier's worry list lengthened unexpectedly. While he was in Washington for a physical checkup, thieves broke into his parked Lincoln Continental and found the secret button inside the glove compartment that unlocked the trunk. Though they left several suitcases of clothes, they heisted...