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...opened, 99 U.S. ambassadors were at work, from the snow-clad plains of Serbia to the traffic jams of Tokyo. They included 68 ambassadors appointed by President Kennedy. In their first year on the job, the Kennedy men could scarcely claim many successes and have already suffered a number of setbacks. But they may well be the most promising new group of diplomats that the U.S. has fielded in years. Not all of them measure up to Kennedy's campaign promise that he would name as ambassadors "the best talent" in the U.S. But as a measure of ability...
...horseback or by car, has been busily reading Yugoslav literature (including all four novels by 1961 Nobel Laureate Ivo Andric). When he found that no first-rate history of Yugoslavia exists, Kennan decided that the embassy should write its own, one chapter per officer (his own assignment: medieval Serbia). Always the intellectual, when his turn came to conduct Sunday services at the nondenominational embassy church. Presbyterian Kennan spurned the canned sermons used by his officers, instead delivered a dissertation on "Religion as a Historical Force...
...world became Von Wiegand's dateline. He went everywhere, usually twice. War was his private preserve. He spotted the first World War in the making, and in July 1914 he made the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia the subject of a 138-word cable to the United Press, then his employer. His reward was a rebuke for the length of his message. He was on hand shortly after the Japanese invaded Manchuria in 1931, and during the battle for Shanghai coolly covered both sides: "I'd go in the morning to the Chinese front and then at noon...
Earlier, with knapsack on his back and a sketching pad in his pocket, he had traveled to Prague, through Serbia and Rumania, to Istanbul and Athens. He spent six weeks examining the Acropolis, and in his autobiography, in which he grandly refers to himself in the third person, he told what those six weeks meant. "The columns are still lying on the ground. Touching them with his fingers, caressing them, he grasps the proportions of the design. Amazement! Reality has nothing to do with books of instructions. Here everything was a shout of inspiration, a dance in the sunlight. Such...
Mike was born in a Fairbanks log cabin on March 12, 1919. His father was known far and wide as "Wise Mike," an emigrant from Serbia who followed the gold rush call to Alaska in 1898. Wise Mike was rugged and sometimes mean tempered, and there are those who say he won his nickname with wise-guy answers to everything. His breakfast appetizer was four or five coffee royals-a couple of slugs of bourbon sweetened with a dash of coffee-and his hobby was seven-deck "pan ginney" dealt out at the Pastime Cafe. Wise Mike laboriously scratched dust...