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...auspicious beginning. Joseph P. Lash, onetime radical and United Nations correspondent for The New York Post, thought he had a good idea. In his spare time, he had written a profile of U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammerskjold ("The Man on the 38th Floor") for Harper's and it had gone over big. "It interested people," Lash recalls today with typical understatement...
Crestfallen but undaunted, Lash continued to search for a publisher. He quickly found one at Doubleday, which gave him a "small contract." Two months after Lash completed his manuscript, Hammerskjold was dead and the world was hungry for news about the man. Lash's book was published in a dozen foreign languages. Suddenly, he could look past daily journalism. "There were two beneficiaries from Hammerskjold's death," he quips today. "Khruschev and Joe Lash...
...Lash, his biography of Hammerskjold was the beginning of a career as a biographer unmatched by contemporary American historians. Since his days as the chronicler of his class at City College, biography was just something that "wasn't all that hard for me," he says. "It was something I rather enjoyed doing," he recalls, "I don't mean to sound snooty in saying it," says the product of the Brooklyn slums, "but it just comes naturally...
...Hammerskjold Markings...
Narasimhan, a top assistant to U.N. Secretary General U Thant, devoted most of the annual Dag Hammerskjold Lecture to a review of the U.N.'s efforts to promote "peaceful change" in the world...