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...Whenever there’s a hot potato, an administrator somewhere in Harvard looks for Sid,” says Markham Professor of Government Kenneth A. Shepsle. “And with good reason...
...Sid is one of the best natural politician-diplomats I have ever met,” King writes in an e-mail. “He can put people completely at ease, get together warring factions with a few disarming comments, and settle disputes before anyone realizes they’re over...
Lyndon Johnson took the presidential oath in the cramped fuselage of Air Force One, surrounded by Jackie, Lady Bird, aides from both staffs and a handful of reporters, leaning and pushing against one another to witness this historic moment. Soon afterward one of them, Sid Davis, the White House reporter for Westinghouse Broadcasting, climbed on the trunk of a car at the edge of Love Field and was relating the story of that frantic, improvised Inauguration. He had to pause as Air Force One roared down the runway and took off, heading back to Washington--the most devastating...
...Hirschfeld and his boon companion Perelman made an oddly complementary couple. Their mutual friend Philip Hamburger of The New Yorker recalled that "Sid would go into depression, and then he would become very excited. And I've never seen Al go very far off course. He's a pretty steady pilot." He had to be, considering that he and Mood-swing Sid spent nine months circling the globe for the series of Holiday magazine articles that became the book "Westward, Ha!" Perelman, in a paean to his pal, described Hirschfeld as "a pair of liquid brown eyes, delicately rimmed...
...DIED. SID GILLMAN, 91, inventive Hall of Fame football coach for the Los Angeles Rams, the Houston Oilers and the San Diego Chargers; in Los Angeles. Among the first to analyze game film to improve his players, Gillman helped create the West Coast offense--a pass-heavy strategy later used by top NFL teams...