Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unable to Count. Victory presumably made Bob Wagner undisputed leader of New York State's Democrats, gives him the chance to heal the canyon-sized breach between the organization regulars and the Herbert Lehman-Eleanor Roosevelt reformers who backed him against the bosses.* Wagner's probable first move: replacing State Chairman Michael Prendergast, who openly backed Gerosa. Since the voters also approved a drastic reform in the city charter. Wagner will have far more control of city affairs than ever before, might be able to achieve a measure of administrative efficiency...
...deign to confide to the slick-paper mass magazines. Thus, in effect, the little magazines form a kind of intellectual backroom where earnest highbrows can eaves drop on literary gossip. Seymour Krim (in Noble Savage) is scathingly honest about the pitfalls for a young writer desperate for integrity. Herbert Gold, in the same issue, takes a real cool look at death in the tinselly heat of Miami Beach...
...prismatic mind, and Olga Carlisle lets Ilya Ehrenburg reveal his rich store of platitude. In Contact the bitterly brilliant Philip O'Connor presents a series of capsule interviews with aging writers of the British Establishment, "gentlemen in and out of letters," ranging from Bertrand Russell to Poet-Essayist Herbert Read. And in Evergreen Robert Stromberg shows another side of the late maligned (and malignable) Louis-Ferdinand Céline...
...Herbert Hoover took his papers to Stanford University, his alma mater; Franklin D. Roosevelt's collection is at Hyde Park, N.Y., his former home; the Harry S. Truman Library is in Independence, Mo.; and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library was recently completed in Abilene, Kans...
...talked to," said University of California Professor Harry B. Keller, "there's a hardening of attitudes. Now that the Russians have done their bit, people tell me, it's time we got cracking ourselves-even if it means atmospheric testing." Detroit's Police Commissioner Herbert Hart felt that the Russians may have done the U.S. a service: "I believe that the Russian superbomb angered our people and succeeded only in placing them more firmly behind any decision that President Kennedy might now have to make...