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...Crown and Commonwealth themselves, exists for the people who will be watching it. By resurrecting the pageantry of the days when Britons lived for the Crown, the Coronation will renew their pride in the democratic revolution that has been worked inside the forms of monarchy. The delerious celebration will refresh peoples whose economic and cultural capacities have either passed their peak or not yet reached...
...Time to Refresh? Excitement, enthusiasm and confusion greeted him when he returned to Springfield. He picked his own personal campaign manager: Wilson Watkins Wyatt, onetime president of the A.D.A. and onetime Fair Deal Housing Expediter, and made it clear that his campaign would be run from Springfield, not from Washington. He named a new chairman of the Democratic National Committee: Stephen Mitchell, a little-known Chicago lawyer who had been, like Stevenson and Wyatt, a Washington operator (a Washington name for smart young lawyers in Government bureaus). Stevenson held several press conferences, some of them on a not-for-attribution...
...therefore of the utmost importance that the educated mind remain clear and steady." But unfortunately, the good minds seemed to him to be the first to be eroded by "torrents of emotion-bearing catchwords." What the U.S. needed, he decided, was a place where the educated could refresh themselves with reflection and study...
...noticeable social philosophy, liberal, reactionary or otherwise. Says John Fine: "I like to play politics for all I am worth when I am playing it. I like to give good government where I can, build up my organization, keep the confidence of the people, keep down the gripes, and refresh the organization with new blood...
Whenever Manhattan's key-hole columnists tire of puffing their friends or scalping their public enemies, they refresh their spirits by jealously skinning one another. Last week the knives came out with a vengeance. And, fittingly enough, Walter Winchell, who is the busiest scalper, this time got the closest skinning...