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...OCCASION of Harvard's 300th anniversary Walter Lippmann '09 warned of increasing entanglements between universities and government. Lippmann insisted that, "Harvard stands unqualifiedly for the principle that unless they are independent of each other, the relation between universities and governments will not be healthy...
...being informal and was really Harold Truman." At the Kremlin, Nikita Khrushchev admonishes his journalist son-in-law, "Does Izvestiya have to be boring? I suppose so, otherwise I would send you to Gulag." But Buckley's most cutting remarks come from newspapers of the day: Columnist Walter Lippmann assures his readers, " 'The present Cuban military buildup is not capable of offensive action.' " The New York Times reports that not even " 'a water pistol, as one official put it,' " had got through to Cuba...
...socialist. In 1946 former Vice President Henry Wallace became editor, before his left-wing campaign for President. But by 1952, the magazine had returned to the Democratic Party mainstream. Almost never profitable, it drew its funding from a succession of wealthy sponsors and its opinions from editors, including Walter Lippmann and Edmund Wilson. Peretz, a Harvard social sciences teacher who inherited some money and whose wife is an heiress, revamped both the magazine's politics and its eclectic cultural section: it covers primarily scholarly books, theater (reviews by Robert Brustein), movies (reviews by Stanley Kauffmann) and, says Literary Editor...
...treated the press itself as newsworthy. The Press section appeared in the magazine's first issue, in 1923, with a story on the now defunct New York World. To date, TIME has run 56 cover stories on the press, profiling a varied range of figures, including Walter Lippmann (1931,1937), William R. Hearst Sr. (1927,1933,1939), Drew Pearson (1948), Ernie Pyle (1944), William F. Buckley Jr. (1967), Arthur Sulzberger (1977) and Dan Rather...
...Hill. Eventually President Johnson, that consummate creature of the Congress, obtained a comfortably functional Democratic majority in 1964. Johnson pushed through the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. His Great Society went well beyond what Kennedy envisioned. "He's done," wrote Walter Lippmann in April 1964, "what President Kennedy could not have done had he lived...