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...columning field is overcrowded these days and no longer as prestigious as when heads of state waited to see what Walter Lippmann had to say. Lippmann, who died in 1974, was far from infallible, but he had a grave, ruminating authority that no one now writing has. But then, in journalism as in everything else, such authority today is suspect. Op-ed-page editors feel that many a Washington oracle spreads himself too thin boning up on too many subjects, and frequently prefer to commission articles from specialists who know one field well...
...only child of a Jewish stockbroker and the French Catholic girl he met just after V-E day while serving as a colonel on Eisenhower's staff. Lou Stone wrote a monthly newsletter about economics and politics; his son describes the style as "right-wing Walter Lippmann, a view of the world every month. My father believed that life was hard. The important thing was to make a living." Jacqueline Stone was just the opposite: inexhaustibly sociable, the original bete de fete. "My mother loved movies," Stone says, "and every Monday I'd play hooky...
There was once another glittering paper in Manhattan. During its 131 tumultuous years, the New York Herald Tribune often seemed larger than the life it tried to record. Legends stalked its pages: Lucius Beebe, Walter Lippmann, Grantland Rice. Abraham Lincoln courted the paper's support; so did Lyndon Johnson. The Tribune was glamorous in part because of its precarious, hand-to-mouth existence. The paper's death in 1966 lent its history the final stuff of which enduring myths are made: a sad ending...
...endowment from $2 million to $22 million, its faculty from 45 to 194, its student body from 500 to 2,000. And he brought Harvard such a quality of leadership that everything he did influenced other colleges. When the aging president strolled & across his Yard, said young Walter Lippmann, he looked "a little bit like God walking around...
Universities clearly are no longer the independent institutions which Lippmann envisioned. They have become inextricably embroiled in the debates and decisions which guide our society. The question is no longer whether that involvement is desirable. It is a reality--one which demands recognition and offers both new opportunities and new obligations for institutions which once basked in their isolation...