Word: stevensons
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...where islanders assemble for a beer or two after races. Three or four fairly primitive tennis courts have been rolled out in the woods on a couple of larger islands. One established resident is Lucien Wulsin, president of Baldwin Pianos, another is Dr. Derrick Vail, famed eye surgeon. Adlai Stevenson is a frequent visitor. Desbarats is, as a Chicago women's editor sighed, "very, very chic...
...Adlai Stevenson, LL.D., U.S. representative to the U.N. His intelligence and ready wit have informed and enlivened the political experience of a generation...
...examination of the U.N.'s five major crises - Iran, Suez, Korea, Cuba and the Congo - including interviews with Trygve Lie, U Thant, Adlai Stevenson, Henry Cabot Lodge and others...
Pusey's citation for Stevenson called the twice-defeated Presidential candidate "generous spirit, instant spokesman for freedom in the councils of the world; his intelligence and ready wit have informed and enlivened the political experience of a generation...
...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 Rhetoric 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...