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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Be Prepared | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Sunset Cruise | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 21, 1960 | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Times & Cuba (Contd.) | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King of Cads | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

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