Word: authored
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...devote himself to Kennedy's campaign. Over the years, he has turned out dozens of articles and seven books on foreign affairs and economics, all of them vibrating with the liberal tones of the big-government planner and spender. With Kennedy's blessing he was chief author of the eloquent thousand and one Utopian promises in the Democratic platform in Los Angeles. He also served as a somewhat neglected Kennedy foreign policy adviser in the campaign...
Died. Negley Farson, 70, bestselling author (The Way of a Transgressor) and onetime foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. Grandson of a Union Army general, hard-living Negley Farson drew the source material for his hard-bitten books from careers as an oil salesman in the U.S., engineer in England, arms salesman in Czarist Russia, aviator in Egypt; of a heart attack; in Georgeham, North Devon, England...
...mind that conceived The Loser is obviously steeped in good will. But as its author says when speaking of his Nazi non-hero: "As so often happens, pen and mind tell a different story." Hans Winterschild, a Nazi infantry officer, is the loser of the title, and so, by reasonable extension, is Germany. But what if Hans and Hitler had been the winners? There are times when The Loser all but implies that the Allies would have been proved wrong, or so a cynic could argue. Hans is a case-history figure, a dedicated Nazi who never had to contend...
...long chase proves that Author Ustinov has not yet mastered the art of creating suspense, but it does give him a chance to do what he does best : hold up national types to clever, cynical scrutiny. His police colonel is cast as a stock Italian official, part scoundrel, part ingratiating humanist, both parts cemented by Machiavellian guile. The head of the German escape ring could be found in Central Casting along with all the lesser characters...
Secondly, the description given of the financing is incomplete and inaccurate. The Ford Foundation at no time "offered to put up the entire sum needed" nor did we ever approach them seriously for money--they assisted us by advising us about other foundations. Had the author of your article opened the conference program he would have seen the names of four smaller foundations which did donate to 20th Century Week. The success of the fund raising effort was due almost solely to the energy and determination of the Finance Chairman, John Simmons...