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...Political Analyst Walter Lippmann wrote about life "not as something given but as something to be shaped." At 83 he is no longer so sure. "It's not possible by Government action or any other action I know to create a perfect environment that will make a perfect man," he told his biographer, Ronald Steel, in an interview for the Washington Post. Lyndon Johnson's Great Society "was beyond our power and beyond the nature of things." Richard Nixon has performed a historic service "to liquidate, defuse, deflate the exaggerations of the romantic period of American imperialism...
Lawrence was not a Washington personality in the manner of the Alsop brothers or the late Drew Pearson. Nor was he an eminence like Walter Lippmann or Arthur Krock. In recent times the readership of his newspaper column declined, and his writing became utterly predictable. But for more than 60 years Lawrence was a formidable journalist who always knew his audience...
...three r's--and they don't mean just reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic. Anything worth while is worth fighting for and if we lack intestinal fortitude we had better resign ourselves to sitting in Widener and admiring the derring-do of such giants as King Arthur, Walter Lippmann, and Mother Goose...
Stone had a long and distinguished career on the great liberal dailies of the '30's and '40's. He was an editorial writer with Walter Lippmann on The New York Post, a columnist for PM and The New York Daily Compass, and the author of a number of books, including one on the birth of Israel for which he entered the pipeline of illegal Jewish refugees seeking entrance to Palestine and was imprisoned in a British detention camp...
Died. Alvin Johnson, 96, a founder and longtime head (1923-45) of Manhattan's New School for Social Research; of a stroke; in Upper Nyack, N.Y. A Nebraska farm boy who mastered Latin and Greek, Johnson went on to teach economics at eight universities and join Walter Lippmann as one of the first editors of the New Republic. In 1919, along with such other intellectual rebels as Historian Charles Beard and Philosopher John Dewey, he established the New School. As director of the free-form institution, Johnson set up a "University in Exile" that offered haven to more than...