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Sumner Welles's view on foreign policy (TIME, Oct. 25) sounds more realistic and more in keeping with our ideals than any other plan proposed so far. If someone with experience in domestic administration like ex-Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota would promise to appoint him Secretary of State, they might well win the 1944 election and give us a top-notch government...
Received: a letter; by Bertie McCormick; from: Wisconsin's ambitious ex-Governor Philip Fox La Follette, a lieutenant colonel in General MacArthur's personal entourage. Mailing point: MacArthur's headquarters; contents: enthusiasm about the Chicago Tribune's enthusiasm for MacArthur in 1944. Most notable sentence: "Perhaps some day some of us here can put our oar in back home and lend a helping hand...
...Chaucer, the usual Shakespeare, and a ponderable amount of reading in the 18th-Century worthies. Henry Fielding and the "lousy parson," the Rev. Laurence Sterne. But what Wilbur Cross really gave the boys was a liberal education in the Connecticut spirit. That spirit lives and breathes throughout the octogenarian ex-Governor's autobiography, Connecticut Yankee, a lengthy document whose dry-sherry tang saves it from collapsing into garrulity...
...Softy. To his friends and students, Wilbur Cross is "Uncle Toby," a nickname taken from the famous character in Sterne's Tristram Shandy who "would not harm a fly." The nickname is deceptive. The Connecticut Yankee as exemplified by ex-Governor Cross is not as taciturn as the Vermont Yankee. He is less inclined than the Boston Yankee to parade his sense of being, like the Lowells, just this side of God. He comes, of course, from "the land of steady habits''-though Uncle Toby sometimes likes to eat peas with his knife. A bit skeptical...
...spent most of his time telephoning or greeting callers who came in unannounced. At 4, he was at the Los Angeles Athletic Club amidst a milling crowd of some 200 in the low-ceilinged assembly room. They were leaders in local affairs from such poles apart as reactionary old ex-Governor Merriam and liberal New Dealing John Anson Ford of the County Board of Supervisors. (One well-meaning lawyer whispered to Willkie not to shake hands with Ford: "He's a radical." Willkie and Ford shook nevertheless...