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...arrow accident that cost him one eye at the age of six, the loopy Columbus boyhood, the insuperable Midwestern chauvinism, the sexual shyness, the days as a code clerk at the U.S. embassy in Paris, the two dozen straight rejections by The New Yorker, the friendships with Playwright-Actor Elliot Nugent and E.B. White, the odd adversary relationship with New Yorker Editor Harold Ross...
Actually, Elliot L. Richardson '41 will probably not be the Class Day speaker this year. For one thing, he is probably too busy setting odds with British journalists on when he will replace Henry A Kissinger '50 as secretary of state. Also, Richardson had his shot at the seniors last year, following Woody Allen's second annual rejection of the coveted honor. In any case, the next week should settle the matter: at this very moment, the class of 1975 is weighing the comparative merits of giving Allen one last chance and striking...
...rumors seemed to gain added substance last week when some English newsmen leaked a conversation they had had with Elliot Richardson just before his swearing in as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Richardson said he thought that the odds were fifty-fifty that the Secretary would resign before the end of the year, depending upon the strain of the job and how much Kissinger felt he was being undercut by Congress. Richardson added that he thought he had a 2-to-l chance of becoming the next Secretary of State...
...magna cum laude graduate from Harvard Law School in 1946, Coleman was selected by Justice Felix Frankfurter to be the first black law clerk in the history of the Supreme Court. He and another young clerk, Elliot Richardson, used to spend one uninterrupted hour each morning reading poetry together...
...Eyewitness News, made the show because, says Executive Producer Dennis Doty, he should "wear well in the morning." Indeed he has so far been unflaggingly unabrasive. To provide political commentary, the show has enlisted such part-time "AMericans" as Lindsay, former Senator Sam Ervin, former Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Civil Rights Activist Jesse Jackson...