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...Schlesinger found an organ for his beliefs in the A.D.A., he found a political standard-bearer in his friend Adlai Stevenson. In 1952 he joined Stevenson's "brain trust" and helped write speeches for the candidate. If Stevenson is nominated again, Schlesinger may use his sabbatical next year to aid his campaign, as well as to finish his Roosevelt study...
Republican Ellen Borden Stevenson, ex-wife of the Democrats' Standard Bearer Adlai Stevenson, hit her low boiling point in Chicago upon learning that burglars had ransacked her country house in Libertyville. Among the stolen items: a big polar-bear skin, stationery, a 300-lb. safe (empty). A couple of days later the phantoms struck again, but took nothing. Next night somebody tried to pry open the trunk of Ellen's car, parked in the estate's driveway. Now infuriated to the vaporization point, Mrs. Stevenson fired off to local newspapers a press release that conjured...
...heroes of the art world, rightly, are creative artists; yet occasionally a standard-bearer of a different sort emerges as a creator in his own right. Such a man is James J. Rorimer, director of The Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum's medieval branch in Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park. Rorimer began constructing The Cloisters in 1934, has since made it the world's best museum of medieval art and a major tourist attraction. This week Manhattan was abuzz with rumors that Rorimer was in line for a new and even more demanding assignment: filling the large chair...
Unheeded Pleas. The Rev. Paul Wagner Roth, 77-year-old committee chairman, pleaded with Crist: "We all would be most happy if you could make the supreme sacrifice of your intellectual doubts and differences as a bearer of the Cross and a follower of Christ...
...weeks or months. Long before the public hears the tumult and the shouting, the preliminary buildup has been under way ... I, and several other people who were close to the Governor [F. D. Roosevelt of New York], had been pondering over his chances to be the party standard-bearer in 1932 ever since his first election to the gubernatorial chair...