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...Hyde Park Library, then did some fast backpedaling when the press caught wind of it. Harry Truman's campaigners solicited top businessmen, pointing out that all contributions were, of course, taxdeductible. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and Adlai Stevenson took to nationwide television to ask donations for Dwight Eisenhower's library in Abilene, Kans...
...find a successor for Curator Lyons, Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey looked no farther than the Nieman alumni list. There, with a little help from Lyons, Pusey found Dwight E. Sargent, 47, a Nieman fellow (1950-51) who newspapered in Maine and, since 1959, has edited the New York Herald Tribune's editorial page. The transition next July should be smooth. Like Lyons, Sargent warms to journalism's scholastic overtones. Moreover, says Lyons, "he's a very comfortable person to have around." Which was just how Dwight Sargent and all the other fellows felt about Louis Lyons...
...only a few weeks before the Republican National Convention. A trans-Pacific jet lands at Los Angeles International Airport. Henry Cabot Lodge gets out, speeds away to the Palm Desert cottage of his old boss and friend, Dwight Eisenhower. There, before hundreds of newsmen and a battery of television cameras, Ike throws an arm around Lodge, extols his virtues and, without naming Goldwater, declares that what the Republican Party needs is a candidate after his own ideal of "progressive Republicanism." Despite that sendoff, Lodge still insists that he is not seeking the nomination. Rather, he says...
...Dwight E. Sargent, editorial page editor of the New York Herald Tribune, will become Curator of the Nieman Fellowships on July 1, it was announced yesterday. Sargent succeeds Louis M. Lyons, who is retiring after 25 years as Curator...
Both Lucas and Considine reported that MacArthur was disappointed in Dwight Eisenhower, whom he described as "once a man of integrity." General George Marshall, who was Secretary of Defense during the Korean War, was "the errand boy of the State Department." General Matthew Ridgway, who took over command of United Nations forces after MacArthur's dismissal, was a "chameleon," who "did a complete flip-flop in 24 hours" when he discovered that Washington opposed Mac-Arthur's war strategy. General Maxwell Taylor was "an ambitious man who will never do anything to jeopardize his career...