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...Novelist Truman Capote, not deigning to identify "they." "This is purely and simply a party for my friends." The trouble was that no one could quite believe that Truman's 540 most intimate friends could be composed of the likes of Averell Harriman and Sammy Davis Jr., Walter Lippmann and Frankie Sinatra, William Baldwin, James Baldwin, Tallulah Bankhead and the Marquis and Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava. Yet the fact is that he possesses an almost endless entrée into the world of the great and the glamorous; as he modestly puts it: "I have an awful...
Last spring, before he began a three-month tour of Western Europe, Columnist Walter Lippmann, 77, insisted that a new isolationism was sweeping the world, making obsolete the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam. Not surprisingly, on his vacation Lippmann found his judgment confirmed. In the first columns he has written since his return, Lippmann portrayed today's Europeans as a grey, inhibited lot. "They do not have the ambition to participate in history and to shape the future. Their state of mind is marked by a vast indifference to big issues, and there is a feeling that they...
...power politics of the 19th century and the early 20th, the idiom of American diplomacy today often sounds as if it belonged to the horse-and-buggy age." The President and Secretary of State "have not taken truly into account the cataclysmic consequences of the collapse of empires," continued Lippmann with a rococo flourish. "We can coexist peaceably only if we forgo the Messianic megalomania which is the Manila madness...
...Among Europeans," said Lippmann, "there is a widespread distaste for our moral pretensions. Since President Kennedy's death our foreign policy has been conducted by men 'whose minds were formed and whose convictions hardened about 25 years ago"-a condition that might apply to columnists...
...work to others, he went to Paris to cover the Versailles Peace Conference and earned a Legion of Honor with his dispatches. Then, in 1923, he left Louisville for New York and got a job as editorial writer for Frank Cobb's World. In 1927, just when Walter Lippmann took over as editor of the World, Krock moved to the Times as a member of its editorial board...