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...result of an earlier treatise on price control, Galbraith found himself Assistant Administrator of the Office of Price Administration?and price control czar of the entire country, with a staff that swiftly swelled from ten people to 16,000. It was a thankless, nearly impossible job, complicated by the guidelines laid down in his own treatise, which proved in practice to be "inapplicable in every detail." He quickly dumped it. In 1943, having irritated just about everyone by his zealous performance, he was dumped himself. A year on FORTUNE followed?he credits Henry Luce with teaching him to write?...
...Tall Are You?" The 1952 presidential campaign marked Galbraith's first active involvement in politics. He authored Adlai Stevenson's Detroit La bor Day speech and shaped his economic policy from the campaign train. With somewhat less enthusiasm, he repeated the role in 1956. "Tragedy the second time is comedy," he notes wryly. Along with Schlesinger and Averell Harriman, he acted as Kennedy's liaison man with the Stevensonian liberal Establishment during the 1960 campaign, did the same for Bobby Kennedy during his 1964 Senate race in New York...
...Galbraith visited India twice to advise the government on its economic problems, and, after a few hints, he became Kennedy's first ambassador to New Delhi in March...
...described India's economy as "the world's greatest example of functioning anarchy," he was welcomed as the biggest thing?in many respects?since Lord Irwin, later Viscount Halifax, who had traveled around the country as Viceroy 30 years earlier with an 8-ft. bed. "How tall are you?" Galbraith was asked soon after his ar rival. The reply: "I am the tallest man in the world...
...straight through the '50s, and Galbraith, despite his unorthodox methods, belongs on the list. "The Great Mogul," as he was called by the embassy staff, won no plaudits for such stunts as wading barefoot in a paddyfield or carrying sacks of cement on his head at a dam construction site. Nonetheless, he achieved a remarkable rapport with Nehru, a man who, he says, was "touched with magic." He also performed with great, still unappreciated distinction during the 1962 Chinese border invasion. "The Indians panicked," says one former assistant. "They just didn't know what to do, and for about...