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Senator Fulbright is being carefully isolated, and he may soon suffer a fate that not too many years ago befell a man who resembles him in many ways, Adlai Stevenson. No man of prominence in America represents the Stevenson tradition more faithfully than Senator Fulbright. He speaks out infrequently, and when he does, it appears to pain him greatly. He chooses his phrases carefully, balancing and moderating his assertions as would a conscientious logician. A politician in name only, he seems more the lonely statesman, agonizing over his place in history...
...Like Stevenson, Fulbright clearly abhors the role of crusader. He fears the consequences of discord in a time of crisis. Now all about him the big guns of the Senate are firing, determined to demonstrate just how noisy and distasteful such discord can be. They realize just how dangerous--to them--a man like Fulbright might...
...Congressional address and written a searingly critical article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Now he stands at the crossroads. He can continue to speak and, by his very eloquence and persistance, force the Administration and its policy-makers to recognize the spirit and intelligence he represents. Or, like Stevenson before him, this man--who forsaw the cataclysm of the Bay of Pigs, who forsaw the neutralism of Tito, who now for-sees more Santo Domingos--can fall silent and allow the Consensus to engulf and encyst...
...fall of 1952, Harvard's name had become almost synonymous with all that was evil in education. During the Presidential campaign, Senator McCarthy twice made nation-wide speeches (the last on election eve in which he castigated Harvard Faculty members who supported Stevenson, particularly Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., '38, then associate professor of History, and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Racroric and Oratory. After the Eisenhower landslide, former Communist Granville Hicks, in testimony before the HUAC, gave an eyewitness' evidence that a cell of the Communist Party had indeed flourished at Harvard during the thirties. And within a week, Committee...
Sobel taught Ed ("Porky") Oliver, who won nine pro tournaments between 1940 and 1959, was runner-up in the U.S. Open, the P.G.A. and the Masters. He put the first golf club in Frank Sinatra's hands, tutored Joe Louis, Adlai Stevenson ("Short but straight as a string"), Rocky Marciano, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Eddie Arcaro, and Sophie Tucker ("Anybody with a pair of hands like that...