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...problem for the newspapers is that not enough people want to know what is going on in the world, not enough people want an adequate news medium. Thirty years ago, in his Public Opinion, Walter Lippmann noted that news was one commodity for which no one was willing to pay a fair price: "Nobody thinks for a moment that he ought to pay for his newspaper. . . . He will pay a nominal price when it suits him, will turn to another paper when that suits him. Somebody has said quite aptly that the newspaper editor has to be re-elected every...
...Walter Lippmann has changed his attitude and thinks we should move slowly to the New Frontier as Mr. Kennedy needs time to get organized, etc. Is not this the "on-the-job training" that we were warned of during the campaign...
...entrance, hoping for the arrival of Jack Kennedy. He did not show-but Brother Bobby and his wife Ethel saved the day. Hour after hour, top names turned up at parties given by other top names. Kennedy looked in on a dinner for Harry Truman; Pundit Walter Lippmann gave a cocktail party for some seven score luminaries in arts and science ("nobody below the rank of Nobel prizewinner"); Eleanor Roosevelt and former New York Senator Herbert Lehman tirelessly made the rounds...
Partly Cloudy. A paternal word of caution descended from the Olympian altitude where Columnist Walter Lippmann dispenses judgment. One of the more impatient pilgrims during the campaign...
...Lippmann called for deceleration when the New Frontier hove into view. "The great task of quiet diplomacy," said he, "is to work out ways and means of keeping the critical questions from reaching the point of irreparable decision. It sounds brave and dashing to say that we must take the lead and act decisively to solve the problems of Laos and Cuba. But the fact is that these problems are, in the present state of the world, insoluble. By open diplomacy, which only too often means loud-mouthed diplomacy, we can do little to assuage, indeed much to exacerbate these...