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...relatives, they could raise only $86,000. They went ahead anyway and somehow, with a small but aggressive staff of writers, turned out the magazine's first issue. An extraordinary number of prominent men plunked down the $5-per-year price to receive TIME, including Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Walter Lippmann, Herbert Bayard Swope, Edward W. Bok, the Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore, and half a dozen college presidents...
...home striding in 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...
Though he has lived in Washington for the past 29 years, Walter Lippmann still calls New York home. Last week he let it be known that he is going back to the city where he wrote books on politics, contributed to the New Republic, and was the last editorial-page editor of Joseph Pulitzer's World...
...Lippmann feels not so much that he is deserting Washington, but that Washington has deserted him. When he arrived in the latter days of the New Deal as the World War II clouds were gathering, he found the capital was the only place for a columnist to be; today he thinks that as a source of world news the city is drying up. "I'm not leaving because of Lyndon Johnson," he says. "Of course I don't like the White House. I think its influence is bad. But that might be a reason for staying. I stayed...
...move to New York does not mean that Lippmann, 77, is retiring. "I'm going on writing," he says rather ominously, "in the same way about the same things...