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...security. But any who thought Dwight Eisenhower had lost his sense of balance between the two logics had not listened to his short, off-the-cuff speech at midweek to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Said he: "These [defense-security] costs are going to be lowered at the earliest possible moment. But they are never going to be lowered beyond that point that you can, with justification, say: 'I shall sleep well tonight because my country, its system, its liberties, are safe...
Died. Walter Brookins, 64, earliest of U.S. aviation's surviving Early Birds; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. A boyhood neighbor of Wilbur and Orville Wright in Dayton. Ohio, he became their first pupil, soloed after 2½ hours' instruction, taught scores of American pilots to fly, including the late General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold. Retiring in 1919, he began manufacturing aircraft parts, helped in the development of World War II's 6-24 Liberator bomber...
...From his earliest days at the Hill School, Widener began collecting books; when he entered Harvard in 1903 he already had a good start to his Robert Louis Stevenson collection, now considered one of the finest in the country. Stevenson was his favorite author and Treasure Island his favorite book. He once told a friend that he never traveled without a copy of Treasure Island and knew it by heart...
...From Cutler the report hurried on to C. D. Jackson, the President's assistant in charge of psychological warfare, and to James Hagerty, secretary. On advice of John Foster Dulles, it was decided not to disturb the sleep of President Eisenhower; but a message was prepared for his earliest information. Allen Dulles, Jackson, Cutler and Hagerty agreed to a 7 a.m. meeting in Hagerty's White House office...
During the late '30s, Root slacked off his buying. But after World War II, he started picking up samples of the new abstract art. He was one of the earliest to buy Theodoros Stamos' dreamily delicate work, Jackson Pollock's paint-spattered canvases, and Mark Tobey's cool, almost Oriental calligraphy...