Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand to hear about the organization of the Institute and the renaming of the Graduate School of Public Administration (now the John F. Kennedy School of Government) were members of the Institute's new Advisory Committee, including Mrs. John F. Kennedy, Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, and C. Douglas Dillon '31, former Secretary of the Treasury...
...fight. Back home, plans were already afoot to form a kind of U.S. Olympic team of malleteers, including all the croquet greats: Composer Richard Rodgers, Actors David Wayne and Gig Young, and as spiritual leader, a man described as "a living croquet legend in his lifetime," Ambassador W. Averell Harriman...
...weeks ago, it seemed that U.S. relations with Cambodia's sensitive Prince Norodom Sihanouk were finally looking up a bit. The Pentagon was talking less heatedly about the North Vietnamese infiltrating the south through Cambodia. Roving Ambassador W. Averell Harriman had wangled an invitation to visit Pnompenh in September to discuss a resumption of diplomatic relations, which Sihanouk suspended 15 months ago. A few days later, at a Washington press conference, Secretary Rusk even had a few words of gentle praise for Sihanouk, who had "done a very constructive and positive job in the development of his country...
...night ago. The U.S. claimed the village was guerrilla-infested and in South Viet Nam. Sihanouk claimed it was peace-loving and in Cambodia, huffily suggested that the U.S. did not recognize that his country had any frontiers at all. With that, Sihanouk last week abruptly passed word that Harriman was no longer welcome. "I am 'Monsieur' Sihanouk, ethnically Cambodian, and do not exist according to the American conception," Snookie sniffed. "Therefore, it is not possible to hold talks with...
Died. Margaret Case Harriman, 61, author, who grew up in Manhattan's Hotel Algonquin (her father owned it), became a sort of midtown Malory by chronicling in The Vicious Circle and Blessed Are the Debonair the activities of the 1920s' Algonquin Round Table (a luncheon gathering of such literary jesters as Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman), also contributed articles to Vanity Fair and a series of notable theatrical profiles to The New Yorker; after a long illness; in Manhattan...