Word: internationalistic
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Died. Ralph Barton Perry, 80, gaunt, horn-rimmed humanist and longtime (1913-46) professor of philosophy at Harvard, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1936 for The Thought and Character of William James; near Boston. A liberal, individualist and internationalist. Philosopher Perry rejected as "presumptuous and foolish" the notion of God as "a kindly indulgence at the seat of cosmic control," was alternately gloomy and optimistic about the U.S.'s future, concluded that its strength lies in its bedrock foundation of puritanism and democracy...
...Mike Mansfield, 53, was ready to step into the place of Kentucky's defeated Earle Clements as assistant majority leader; Rhode Island's ancient (89) Senator Theodore Francis Green would take over from Walter George as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Illinois' staunchly internationalist Thomas Gordon, 63, would move into the place of South Carolina's retired James P. Richards as head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee...
Died. Walter Evans Edge, 82, off-and-on (1917-19, 1944-47) Republican governor of New Jersey, who served between terms as U.S. Senator (1919-29) and Ambassador to France (1929-33), gained respect as an early G.O.P. internationalist; in Manhattan...
...under hair dryers, introduced himself to the surprised clients thereunder, explaining: "I need your vote." Popular as he is, Yaleman Cooper is regarded by some of the Kentucky Old Guard as being "too progressive" and distinctly a member of the party's Eisenhower wing, i.e., he is an internationalist. But Old Guardsmen tend to forgive a man whose popularity so thoroughly crosses party lines...
...Alexander Wiley last May when it voted to support another candidate in the U.S. Senate primary. The G.O.P organization diagnosed Wiley's political illness as an acute case of globalitis-for Wiley, as ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had doggedly supported President Eisenhower's internationalist policies. The prescription was a ruthless purge, and the man nominated to bring it off in the primaries was Glen R. Davis, 41, a handsome, smooth-talking fifth-term Congressman who believes in the Bricker amendment and in tapering off on foreign aid. Old Alex Wiley left the convention...