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...advice. Executive Vice President Buren H. McCormack answered the phone. The result of five other calls, made a few minutes after 4 p.m.: "William F. Kerby, president, was 'gone for the day' an assistant said. Robert Bottorff, vice president, was 'on vacation.' Vermont Royster, the editor, was 'gone for the day,' his secretary said. Warren H. Phillips, executive editor, was not in; 'You just missed him,' said his secretary. Finally, Donald A. Macdonald, director of advertising was 'in a meeting...
...Royster, in a way, offers his younger colleague at Harper's a word of caution: beware the pitfalls of overestimating youth. "We are all excited by youth and vigor," he writes, "the young because they share it and the rest of us because we remember it. But the greater difficulty is that none of us-even young people themselves-really put as much stock in it as we all pretend to. When we must put the great affairs of life in another man's hands, we almost always turn to the mature-even the fatherly-image." Royster...
Fatal Faith. Age difference aside, Royster and Morris share a similar Southern outlook. They have an eye for the out-of-kilter detail, the endearing eccentricity that redeems even an opponent. Royster is a conservative, Morris a liberal; yet the politics of both are mellowed by an appreciation of human quality. Though he disagreed with many of Adlai Stevenson's views, Royster saluted his concession speech ("Too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh") in 1952: "I think that nothing better revealed in Mr. Stevenson a quality for leadership than the manner of his yielding...
...Royster has the conservative's ingrained distrust of people with neat solutions. "The fantasy that for every problem there exists a political solution is responsible for the drift toward paternalistic government. In its extreme form, it helps account for that phenomenon of the 20th century, the totalitarian state." While poverty clearly exists in the U.S., he feels that it has been grossly exaggerated. "Believe me," he writes, "in the slums you will also find the tempest-tossed from other lands to whom this 'poverty' is something they fled to from something far worse...
...thoughtful pieces on foreign policy, Royster shows the same sense of measure. He cautions the U.S. to steer a course somewhere between despair and euphoria, to know its limits yet act decisively within them, to be conscious of the gradations of evil in the world without feeling compelled to try to eradicate them all. "A blind faith in total victory," he writes, "can be fatal because it assumes that evil exists in the world only by sufferance, that all it takes to destroy it is godlike power...