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Lippmann's first major participation in events cannot be faulted: he contributed to the shaping of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. But Lippmann never did have a rigid belief in journalistic celibacy. In the nine years that he was the influential editor of Pulitzer's New York World, he promoted friends for office, plotted strategies, intrigued behind the scenes, all unbeknownst to his readers. When Al Smith ran for President in 1928, Lippmann commuted to Albany in the Governor's private railway car to coach him on foreign policy, advise him on strategy, help write...
...after he graduated from Harvard in 1910. He published his first book, A Preface to Politics, at age 23 and was one of the founding editors of the New Republic. Woodrow Wilson consulted him regularly and asked him to help draw up the peace plan that emerged as the Fourteen Points. During the '20s, Lippmann wrote editorials for the New York World, the most influential Democratic paper of its time. When the World folded in 1931, he went over to the Republican Herald Tribune. His column, "Today and Tomorrow," made him a celebrity; at its peak, it was carried...
...dwindling in numbers and clout. Union membership is declining, down from about a third of all nonfarm workers in the mid-'50s to less than a fourth today. Blue-collar workers are a shrinking minority of the work force (33%); white-collar workers have become an outright majority (51%). Fourteen of the 20 biggest U.S. cities, traditional Democratic strongholds, lost population during the 1970s, some drastically, as residents moved to the largely Republican suburbs. The cities that did gain in population tended to be in the Republican-dominated Sunbelt?Houston, Phoenix and San Jose, for example...
...party pyramid is the Central Committee, whose 287 members include the most powerful individuals in the nation. Fourteen of the most equal among the equals on the Central Committee constitute the policy-setting Politburo, which has been carefully controlled for most of the past 16 years by Brezhnev and his circle...
...NOTEBOOK: Six Crimson batters rapped out two hits apiece in the fourteen-hit onslaught... John Curtin isn't the only Eagle with a Harvard brother. Ninth-inning pinchhitter Barry Hynes has an older brother named John--the Crimson hockey goalie... Ron Stewart came on to get the last two outs after Larson allowed a ninth-inning blast by Joe Caffrey. The score wasn't close enought for Stewart to record a save, however... Weather report for this afternoon's home contest vs. UMass--"more of the same." at Brookline HARVARD(10) AB R H BI Bauer...