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...Adlai Stevenson's eulogy for Mrs. Roosevelt, he said: "She would rather light candles than curse the darkness," which I believe was a paraphrase of "It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness...
...somberly reflective Adlai Stevenson that his friend Ben Shahn portrays on the cover can be said to capture the ambassador's mood during the past week (as we think it does), it must be put down to prescience...
Shahn actually did the sketch some time ago, in the spring of 1960, to accompany an article written by Stevenson for a new magazine. But the magazine never got off the ground, the article never appeared, and Shahn's sketch now reaches print for the first time...
...Stevenson did not sit for his portrait, and Shahn mostly relied on his own memory of him. "One has a multiple image of a person seen so often in public, in the press and on TV," says Shahn, who then set out to catch in a few strokes a likeness faithful to that multiple impression that existed in his mind...
...Washington Bureau Chief John Steele, who did most of the reporting on this week's cover story, Adlai Stevenson is a fascinating and familiar subject. "I remember him first during the 1952 campaign, when he abandoned it to deal with a prison riot back in Illinois. From a hilltop I could see him, a somewhat incongruous figure in a brown Brooks Brothers hat and a Chesterfield coat, walk into the prison courtyard and calmly sway a frenzied mob into returning to their cells with a warning that he would order the guards to fire once at the ceiling...