Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though he has declared that he will not become an active candidate for his party's presidential nomination, Illinois' onetime (1949-53) Democratic Governor Adlai Stevenson, 60, believes in being prepared. Last week, with Stevenson still away on a tour of Latin America, his friends at home made known that he had enlisted as a fulltime speechwriter a longtime friend: William Attwood, 40, who took a nine-month leave from his job as foreign editor of Look Magazine. Attwood's assignment (for which he will be paid his regular Look salary by a group of Stevenson fans...
...been a notable friend of the broadcasting industry. His successor as FCC chairman: Frederick W. Ford, 50, a tough, shrewd West Virginia lawyer, a member of the FCC for three years, a good friend of Attorney General William Rogers, and an advocate of stern new regulations to curb the excesses of the industry...
...local TV program. Kansas City's forthright Artist Thomas Hart Benton, 70, broke off from mural painting in the nearby library of his old friend, Harry Truman, to lower a heavy easel on Russian art. Said he: "They have no use whatever for all this individualism, abstract impressionism, and what Harry-President Truman-calls 'ham-and-egg art . . .' The only good art they ever had was the art the church took out of Byzantine Greece into Russia-the making of those icons. Their realistic art is the worst kind of art borrowed out of the worst period...
...chance to prove his good intentions. "If you are a newspaperman of responsibility," said one Timesman, "you don't rush into print immediately; you weigh the consequences." A major weigher of Cuban consequences for the Times was Editorial Writer Herbert L. Matthews (TIME, July 27), a good friend of Castro and ranking U.S. newspaper apologist for the Castro regime. "Youth," explained Matthews, writing off the excesses of the Castro government, "must sow its wild oats...
...stood by his friend when Wilde's homosexuality jostled him from society into Reading Gaol. During Oscar's trial, he advised him to escape to France-there was a yacht waiting, he said, with steam up in the Thames. (Shaw suspected the steam yacht was hot air, just as Painter Augustus John thought Harris' Rolls-Royce to be, "like Elijah's chariot, purely mythical.") When Oscar went to prison, Harris defied a savage social blockade to visit the ruined man, offered him ?500. There may have been genuine courage in his conduct, but typically, two days...