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...financiers but in the universities. Harvard Law Professor Felix Frankfurter was now sending along a pack of bright and ambitious young lawyers who came to be known as the "happy hot dogs." Washington "is more entertaining and more lively than at any time since the war," the critic Edmund Wilson reported in the New Republic. "Everywhere in the streets and offices you run into old acquaintances . . . the 'progressive' young instructors from the colleges, the intelligent foundation workers, the practical idealists of settlement houses, the radicals who are not too radical not to conceive that there may be just...
...Edmund Goodhue '68, an alumnus interested in art who talked with Slive about the offer, said yesterday, "I think Slive was correct in not getting Harvard involved." Goodhue said the offer to Harvard may have been used as a "political crowbar" in the negotiations with New York, where the sculpture has met community resistance...
Recalling the unsuccessful attempt to unseat California Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown in 1962, Ehrlichman says Nixon made his celebrated morning-after declaration ("You won't have Nixon to kick around any more") because he was suffering from a terrible hangover when he barged into a press conference. Ehrlichman also claims that when he was asked to join the 1968 presidential campaign staff, he said he would do so if Nixon would curtail his tippling. Ehrlichman contends that Nixon agreed, and kept the unusual bargain...
...report, which was endorsed by Secretary of State Edmund Muskie in July 1980, calls for a leveling off of the world's population growth so that by the year 2000 there would be two billion fewer people than if no such policy had been undertaken...
...some 330 communiques to friends, publishers and film executives, a life passes in review. There are references to young Raymond who wrote "clever and snotty" critiques for an English periodical. That occupation later made him suspicious of all critics, including W.H. Auden, who praised his works as art, and Edmund Wilson. At the age of 51, the schoolboy raised on Latin and Greek becomes a novelist (The Big Sleep, 1939), trying to make the detective story "respectable and even dignified." It grew so respectable that Chandler could laugh when S. J. Perelman parodied Marlowe's hard-boiled approach...