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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL: YOUNG STATESMAN by Randolph S. Churchill. 763 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
Coolidge's actions manifested a real concern for Harvard students. It was his plan that resulted in Randolph Hall, a "perhaps premature attempt to introduce what is now called the 'House Plan'," according to Coolidge's brother. Randolph Hall is now a part of Adams House, which has a room memorializing him. The Coolidge Professorship of Modern History was founded by his bequest...
...Born in 1868 in a mud-chinked cabin near Blossom Prairie, Garner took to politics like a bird dog after quail. In 15 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, he rose to Speaker; then in 1932 he made a bid for the presidency. With potent support from William Randolph Hearst, Garner held the Texas and California delegations until the fourth ballot, then threw his votes to F.D.R., in a deal that made him the ticket...
...Budget is the economic flower of the old civil rights movement. It is outlined in an 84-page red, white, and blue pamphlet entitled "Budgeting our resources, 1966-1975, to achieve Freedom from Want." The study was directed by Bayard Rustin, executive director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute and organizer of the red, white, and blue 1963 March on Washington...
...assumed the role of a pioneer, a twentieth century Whitman, not only in the exploitation of untraditional themes but also in the development of a style that takes no cue from any predecessor--not even from Whitman. He takes enormous risks in his wriitng. He likes to quote Randolph Bourne: "The trouble with American culture is that the American artist is never allowed to make any mistakes. Poets today are afraid of gambling." He adds thoughtfully, "You have to get out on the edge and thread that very thin line between the predictable and the impossible, the ordinary...