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AGAINST THE AMERICAN GRAIN (427 pp.) - Dwight Macdonald - Random House...
...Dwight Macdonald is a genial tilter at windmills, and in his time he has bowled over more than his share. If occasionally a blade clouts him on the back of the noggin, he is undeterred. He barrels on, filling the conversational air with friendly bellowings and snorts even when he has not formed words ready to his tongue. He can keep an interrupter at bay just by an elongated stammer, disarm the most savage attacker with a high, snuffling whinny, and it sometimes takes the cold light of morning to tell where he went wrong. But he remains...
UNRUH ON WAY. called the Town Crier, newspaper of Yale's Timothy Dwight College. So he was-and Yale did not know quite what to expect of California's Jesse Marvin Unruh (pronounced un-rue), who was traveling East to become this year's first Chubb Fellow...
...taken back when invited to be a Chubb Fellow. The prestigious fellowship was endowed by Insurance Executive Hendon Chubb ('95) to encourage student interest in public affairs. Each year four or five public dignitaries take residence for five days, share in the life of Yale and Timothy Dwight College, make a speech and answer a lot of questions. Past Chubb Fellows include Harry Truman, Clement Attlee, Dean Acheson, Herbert Brownell. Adlai Stevenson, Chester Bowles and Barry Goldwater. Against such a cast of characters, Unruh could only say on arrival: "I guess I'm the chubbiest Chubb Fellow...
...Manhattan luncheon, West Point Cadet Colin Kelly III, 22, son of World War II's Distinguished Service Cross-winning air hero, heard Dwight Eisenhower recount how Franklin D. Roosevelt requested that some future President appoint the hero's son, then an infant of 18 months, to West Point as a tribute to his father's bravery. Yet when he offered the young man a presidential appointment, continued Ike, young Kelly politely declined the favor: "Thank you very much -I'll earn it myself." "Which he did," said Ike. After lunch, the old soldier joined Kelly...