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...will not demean the previous lecturers in this series by saying that we have saved the best for last," said Charles R. Ritcheson (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1947-48), cultural attache to the American Embassy in London...
Bailyn followed Ritcheson's lead and introduced his lecture with extended witticisms about Harvard's role in British-American relations. The predominantly British audience responded with polite laughter, straining to understand the humor...
...applause thundered from the audience, Bailyn walked across the stage, took a seat between the British and American flags, and settled back as Ritcheson, in the tradition of British toastmasters, extolled his presentation. Then the British gambit. "Professor Bailyn has kindly agreed to answer a few questions," Ritcheson delicately offered...
...question from Professor Esmond Wright!" Ritcheson declared. Silence descended. Heads turned toward the celebrated director of the Institute of United States Studies at the University of London, an authority on the loyalists during the Revolution, and still known for his outspoken Tory stands as a former member of Parliament...
...Sorry about that question. Really fine lecture," Wright was overheard to tell Bailyn at the reception in an adjoining room, as Ritcheson whisked the two of them off for a photograph with tall Lord Robbins, an imposingly preserved economist who had been distinguished even in the time of Lord Keynes...
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