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...three years of publication, the Democratic Digest has served mostly as a canape tray laden with fancily garnished political tidbits. Adlai Stevenson's egghead followers thought it had the flavor of real caviar. But most ordinary folks considered it just plain fish eggs-and rancid at that. Result: the Digest lost $200,000 in struggling toward a monthly circulation...
Republican Robert Braucher, professor of Law, also noted a considerable anti- Stevenson sentiment. But he felt it was chiefly and egghead reaction to Stevenson's attempt to become a "baby-Kissing" candidate...
Chicago's Patroness of Arts Ellen Borden Stevenson, ex-wife of the Democratic presidential candidate, announced that The Egghead and I (a collection of "essays, satirical verse and excerpts from my diaries concerning the 'egghead' in national affairs-a problem we all face") is now "canceled" and will not be published as previously vouchsafed (TIME, Aug. 20). Ellen had pestered many publishers to vent her polemic, but had failed to crash through with a manuscript. Muttered one Chicago literary agent: "She had a good title, and that was about it." Despite her provocative title, Ellen Borden Stevenson...
...candidate, Alexander Cella '51, maintained, "Voters in my district think a Harvard education is a political asset." Cella, who delivers 20 per cent of the lectures in Government 140, State, admitted that there are those who think an egghead has no place in practical politics. But, he argues, an understanding of the theory of politics, as well as the reality, is the perfect combination...
...have no worries about the 'egghead vote,'" Peck stated, "but only about the regular people who sat on their hands four years age. And there is a question as to whether (University supporters) are the right people to cope with this problem...