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...skull; a quick smile, a rueful laugh, eyes that are inclined to bulge. Is a serious, thinking, worrying, hard-working,, self-criticizing introvert. A frugal man, he has an income of about $50,000 a year (mostly from his one-fourth interest in the Bloomington, Ill. Daily Pantagraph...
Career: For 18 months, between Harvard and Northwestern, worked as a reporter and editor on the Bloomington Pantagraph, owned by his mother's family. After graduation from Northwestern, entered law practice in Chicago. In 1933 he went to Washington as special counsel to the administrator of the new Agricultural Adjustment Act. Returned to law practice in Chicago in 1935, went back to Washington in 1941 to be special assistant to Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, a Republican. Later served as a special assistant to two Secretaries of State, Edward Stettinius and James Byrnes. Handled press relations...
Between Harvard and Northwestern, Stevenson worked for 18 months as a reporter and editor on the Bloomington Daily Pantagraph, owned by his mother's family. He still owns a quarter-interest in that prosperous county paper, and gets most of his income from it. After he got his degree from Northwestern, he went to Russia in an effort to interview Russian Foreign Minister Chicherin, who had refused to talk to foreign correspondents. No interview, but an interesting trip...
Stevenson, a novice at campaigning, was completely at ease in Bloomington, where he spent his boyhood and where his family has long published the Daily Pantagraph. At a reception in the high-ceilinged Stevenson homestead on elm-lined East Washington Street, he bore up like a veteran through two dinning hours of handshaking, reminiscing with boyhood friends and chinning with local politicos (including many a curious Republican...
...from Chicago for nearly seven years. He served as a wartime assistant to Secretaries Frank Knox, Cordell Hull and Ed Stettinius; he went abroad on several missions for the State Department. Stevenson has numerous friends both in the downstate area (where his family for generations has owned the Bloomington Pantagraph) and on Chicago's La Salle Street, where many Republicans have already promised him their votes...