Word: lippmanns
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Liberal's Career. Many onetime admirers of Walter Lippmann will seriously question whether this conclusion is a fitting crown to a career which to them long seemed bound in a different direction. Born in Manhattan, the only child of well-to-do Jewish parents, young Walter was privately schooled, taken regularly to Europe, sent to Harvard. There in a class (1910) that included John Reed, Heywood Broun, Kenneth MacGowan, Robert Edmond Jones, Lippmann worked so hard and well that he finished his course in three years, spent his fourth year as assistant to Philosopher George Santayana. William James thought...
When in 1912 a crusading parson, George R. Lunn, was elected mayor of Schenectady on a Socialist platform, he offered the job of secretary to young Mr. Lippmann. Lippmann accepted, found a few months of practical politics plenty, retired to the Maine woods to write his first book, A Preface to Politics. The book attracted the attention of the late Herbert Croly, then cogitating (with the late financier Willard Straight's backing) a U. S. liberal weekly. Croly wrote to Lippmann, urging him to sign up. When the first issue of the New Republic appeared (1914) 25-year...
...early Wilsonian era the New Republic was the almost-official White House organ. When the U. S. entered the War it was not surprising that Walter Lippmann should be given the job of assistant to Secretary of War Newton D. Baker. His experiences in Washington and abroad (where he joined the A. E. F. as captain in the U. S. A. Military Intelligence and attended the Versailles Conference as aid to the U. S. commissioners) left him with the feeling that the New Republic was a shade too theoretical. When he returned to the U. S. he soon left...
...Lippmann's two years with able Editor Cobb taught him much, left him well fitted to take over the editorial page of the World when Cobb died at 54. For the next seven years Lippmann's editorship made and kept the World?, editorial page the brightest liberal lighthouse in U. S. journalism. With the death of the World in 1931 Lippmann seemed checked in midcareer. When he was offered and accepted a place in the columns of the arch-Republican Herald Tribune, which hired him not as an editor but as an independent columnist whose opinions the publisher...
...Same or Different? From Socialism to G. O. P., from New Republic to Herald Tribune, these are transitions which the contemners of Walter Lippmann today cannot forgive and will not allow to be forgotten. Although his sincerity is above cavil and his personality above bitterness, they question whether the lucidity of his writing (the Herald Tribune once billed him in phrases borrowed from the American Magazine as "The Man with the Flashlight Mind, the Great Elucidator") is more than a meretricious semblance hiding a confused mind...