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With his three-foot-high caricature half done, Scarfe moved to Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel where he applied the finishing touches, dressing the completed figure in a shirt and sports jacket lent by Galbraith. As he carried it into a crowded elevator on his way downstairs to a taxi, a little old lady tapped him on the shoulder and asked: "Is that John Galbraith?" "I was delighted," says Scarfe. "It was the first time anyone had seen...
Scarfe's figures of the Beatles still repose in Madame Tussaud's waxworks in London. Aware that a similar long-lasting fate might await his Galbraith sculpture, TIME'S editors asked the professor if they could keep the jacket, which he had bought at Horton's of Dublin. Indeed they could, said the Scots-descended economist, "for one hundred dollars!" TIME sent a check posthaste...
...John Kenneth Galbraith...
...popular economist and polished diplomat, a veteran lecturer and fledgling novelist, a former presidential adviser and current cynosure of the Eastern intellectual set, John Kenneth Galbraith has long been a purveyor of predictions. For two decades they have come tumbling from his typewriter and tongue in prodigious quantities, covering every topic from women to world politics. Yet there are few predictions that Galbraith cherishes more?or wishes more that he had never felt com pelled to make?than his warning that a major U.S. involvement in Viet Nam would lead to disaster...
...Galbraith, the war in Viet Nam is one that "we cannot win, and, even more important, one we should not wish to win." As far back as the early days of John F. Kennedy's presidency, when Berlin, Cuba and Laos loomed as the most menacing trouble spots for the U.S., Galbraith was counseling against the dispatch of even a few American combat troops to South Viet Nam. "A few," he advised Kennedy in 1962, "will mean more and more and more." His forecast proved flawless. From 773 advisers at the start of the decade, the U.S. force grew...