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...most famous, and in some quarters, most infamous, scions of two of America's most famous and infamous patrician clans have bared it all. Or at least, all they feel like baring. By fate, coincidence, or contingency Nelson Rockefeller and Corliss Lamont, nabobs of Standard Oil and the House of Morgan, respectively, have hung heaps of autobiographical linen out to dry at the same time. Modern detergents and public relations notwithstanding, only one man comes out clean in the wash...
Rockefeller and Lamont both come from up-town, East Coast, forever philanthropic, library-building families that take great stock in printing private genealogies and producing model citizens. Rockefeller and Lamont are both closing in on that age when reminiscing becomes more than attending the occasional Ivy League alumni gathering. One is 66, the other 72. And, as their initial golden-days forays into reminiscence and self-accounting reveal, Rockefeller's in 72 pages and four days before the white-hot television lights of the Senate Rules Committee, Lamont's in a little-noticed collection of essays entitled Voice...
Still, if Lamont hasn't bitten too brazenly (and it goes without saying that patrician parents demand oral gratification) Rockefeller nonetheless exceeded all previously known limits for filial sucking-up. The vice-presidential nominee delivered a maudlin soliloquy on the "Influence of My Mother." By contrast, Lamont's introductory, right-up-front candor is inviting indeed...
Various people, especially newspaper columnists, have habitually tried to make a mystery out of my beliefs and actions owing to the fact that my father, Thomas W. Lamont, was a successful banker. But both my father and mother were warm, sympathetic, generous individuals who were liberals on most issues of importance and shared with me the aim of seeking the greatest good for the greatest number...In a real sense, I have carried on in the spirit of my parents, though thinking their goals would be more likely achieved through leftist solutions...
...members of the Boston Community Media Committee, a group founded six years ago largely to promote more sensitive coverage of minority-group affairs. More important than the statement, the executives agreed to downplay any incidents of violence. "We went about it from the standpoint of our civic responsibility," recalls Lamont Thompson, New England area vice president for Westinghouse Broadcasting. "We made a very strong commitment to the mayor that although we would cover the totality of the news, there would be no inflammatory material, and unpleasant incidents would be written up judiciously...