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...personal inclination, the dean of the pundits, Walter Lippmann, 71, has in the past often stayed rather above and beyond the smoke of political battle.* This year Lippmann is blazing away for Kennedy. He is one of the few pundits who have made a personal declaration in print: Kennedy, wrote Lippmann, would "make much the better President.'' To Lippmann, it "has been truly impressive to see the precision of Mr. Kennedy's mind, his singular lack of demagoguery and sloganeering, the stability and steadfastness of his nerves, his coolness and his courage -the recognizable marks...
...Said Syndicated Columnist Marquis Childs: "A new kind of party is coming into being." Or as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Raymond P. Brandt put it, "the Massachusetts Senator has virtually assured himself [of victory] over the old-line professional politicians." All in all, concluded Lippmann, the Democrats "feel, perhaps rightly, that they are riding the wave of the future...
...behind. Scripps-Howard Columnist Andrew Tully wrote glowingly of the candidate's heroic character: "This was the Jack Kennedy who saved a PT-boat crew in the Pacific's wartime waters." Smiled the Herald Tribune's Roscoe Drummond: "He is pleasant to know." Walter Lippmann paid tribute to "his youth, his sharp and trained intelligence, and his undoubted popular magnetism." Even the New York Post's sour-tempered Murray Kempton broke down and confessed that the young man from Boston was "an engaging fellow"-thereby leaving Westbrook Pegler almost alone to carry the dissent: "A hard...
Maine-where Walter Lippmann achieved a new dimension; see PRESS, Journey on Television...
...Reports (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Pundit Walter Lippmann makes his first television appearance in a broad, blunt discussion, with Interviewer Howard K. Smith, of Presidents, politics and peeves...