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...best and the worst of a generation that has not yet died out can be summed up in an epitaph for Sumner Welles: he was a gentleman. A career diplomat, for ten years Roosevelt's Under Secretary of State, Welles was the very prototype of the suave, dignified and urbane public official. In a profession in which respect is everything, he maintained an impeccablbe record in the eyes of his colleagues...
Welles was the kind of man that Henry Adams thought was dying out around the turn of the century. A graduate of Harvard College '14, grandson of Senator Charles Sumner, (who is perhaps best remembered for having said, "A Congressman is a hog. You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!") Welles rose rapidly in the diplomatic service. The friendship of Franklin D. Roosevelt and others who recognized him as one of their own were of value in a day in which the State Department was one of Washington's more exclusive clubs...
Outwardly, the diplomatic world is still the same. Unfortunately, the greatest change has been to replace the somewhat austere, unbending morality of a Sumner Welles with a fraternity-brother's back-slapping goodwill. Perhaps a new breed of men will emerge having the clear sight of what our task demands of us in the real world behind the polite formalities. Hopefully, they will also prove that honor and good-will have not died with Sumner Welles...
...Dick Gregory was raised on relief. His chronically unemployed father was separated from his mother, a woman full of humor who always told her son that the family was "not poor, just broke," and taught him the spirited difference. Well-built and athletic, he was a crack miler at Sumner High School, went on to break records at Southern Illinois University. He showed skill as a comic in Army talent contests in the mid '50s, and when he worked as a clerk in the Chicago post office, the foreman told him that if he did not stop cracking jokes...
...JULIUS SUMNER MILLER El Camino College, Calif...