Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Herbert H. Lehman, who died last week at 85, was a most unlikely sort of politician. He could not remember a name or a face. A small, somewhat heavy man, he had little humor, and almost no time for the pleasantries ordinarily associated with politics. He was a tireless do-gooder, given to rambling speeches about the virtues of liberalism. He had none of the classic grace of Franklin Roosevelt, none of the earthy charm of Al Smith. Yet in his time he was as popular with New York voters as either F.D.R. or the Happy Warrior -and he outlasted...
...colleague once called Herbert Lehman "the conscience of America." Always a liberal, he fought as Roosevelt's "right arm" for the New Deal, was among the first to challenge the activities of Joseph McCarthy, and while in his eighties, brought some measure of reform to New York's Democratic party...
More important than his accomplishments as legislator or administrator was his role as critic of American complacency. Not content with the satisfactions of wealth, he devoted his life to public service. At an age when most men prefer retirement, Herbert Lehman welcomed the call to political action. His life will remain an admirable example of courage and devotion to principle...
HAROLD STEVENSON-Feigen-Herbert, 24 East 81st. Eyebrows will go up from Manhattan to Idabel, Okla. (the artist's home town) at his billboard-size The New Adam in the buff. Also on display are 17 other samples of Stevenson's exquisite gigantism, including The Right Eye of Sal Mineo with lashes as long as shoestrings. Through...
...Italy-Producer-Writer-Director Ben Maddow (The Savage Eye) serves up a mannered little pastiche of urban infidelities that is pure counterfeit. Husband Kevin McCarthy can't stand shrewish Wife Lee Grant, so he takes up with Model Viveca Lindfors, who is the mistress of his best friend Herbert Berghof. Rounding out the quintet, for no discernible reason except to exploit interracial dalliance, is Diana Sands as a footloose Negro photographer...