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...white tie and tails down the aisle at a performance of the Boston Opera (of which he is president) as he is scampering down a campaign parade route, shouting "Hey! Hey! Hey! Hello there!" He is at ease at dinner with Vice President Humphrey, Walter Lippmann and Mrs. Christian Herter, and just as comfortable with Negro friends eating "soul food," a Porgy orgy consisting of pig's feet, ham, fried fish, cornbread and greens?to which Brooke sometimes adds champagne. He was such an energetic salesman of bonds for Israel that a high school in that country has been named...
Prostrate Continent. Despite disappointment, despite the continually worsening arthritis that cruelly contorted his gangling 6-ft. 4½-in. frame and made him dependent on metal crutches or a wheelchair, Christian Herter was not one for retirement. When he died at 71 of a pulmonary embolism in his Washington home, he was still striving for international agreement-this time to lower tariffs-as the President's Special Representative for Trade Negotiations. That effort, too, proved endlessly frustrating...
...through hard work and good intentions alone that Herter influenced postwar history. After the Truman Administration proposed the broad outlines of the Marshall Plan in June 1947, the Bostonian, then a Republican Congressman, proposed establishment of a House Special Select Committee on Foreign Aid and became its chairman. After two grueling months of surveying Western Europe's plight-Herter had directed the members to leave wives and tuxedos at home-the committee wrote a compelling, detailed report on what was needed to revive the prostrate continent. Above all, it was Herter's support and advocacy, along with Arthur...
Between Poles. Herter also had a winning record as a Bay State politician -even though he fell between the poles of Brahmin Republicanism and Irish-dominated Democratic power. Son of artists, grandson of a German immigrant who prospered as an architect, Herter himself briefly studied art and architecture. He happened into diplomacy in 1916 upon hearing of an opening in the Berlin embassy. After the war, he worked for Herbert Hoover's Relief Administration in Europe and the Commerce Department in Washington before going back to Boston to write and lecture in support of internationalism...
Died. Christian A. Herter, 71, Secretary of State under President Eisenhower from 1959 to 1961; of a pulmonary embolism; in Washington, D.C. (see THE NATION...