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...estimates if the Administration denies that Soviet might has "increased considerably." (Grumped Ike to his staff: "We may have to take another look at what we give these people.") Columnist Joseph Alsop called the Eisenhower determination to preserve fiscal responsibility in Government an "obsession" and a "mania." Pundit Walter Lippmann, himself past 70, likened Ike to "a tired old man who has lost touch with the springs of our national vitality...
...Randolph Hearst (Aug. 15, 1927; May 1, 1933 and March 13, 1939) and the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert McCormick (May 7, 1928 and June 9, 1947) to such comic-strippers as Milton Caniff (Jan. 13, 1947) and Al Capp (Nov. 6, 1950); from such pundits as Walter Lippmann (March 30, 1931 and Sept. 27, 1937) to such scriveners as Walter Winchell (July 11, 1938); from such publishers as the New York Daily News's Joseph Patterson (May 7, 1928) to his daughter Alicia of Long Island's Newsday (Sept. 13, 1954). This week, in U.S. Presidential...
...Literature, to be occupied by one of Babbitt's last Harvard students, Critic Harry Levin, 47 (James Joyce: A Critical Introduction). It was an honor proposed by another former Babbitt student. Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey. Countless other students, 'from Poet T. S. Eliot to Pundit Walter Lippmann, would doubtless second it. For nearly 40 years such students jammed Babbitt's French literature classes, and by now his own general contempt for them is a matter that aging men may forgive dead giants. It was worth much to hear Irving Babbitt tear apart his enemies (notably Rousseau...
...wielders of this power, the range of style, ability and responsibility is as broad as the U.S. itself. It stretches from the gross inaccuracies of Drew Pearson, who is at once the least reliable and the best ratcatching reporter in town, to the sage, sometimes unfathomable profundities of Walter Lippmann, treating the current news as though it were already history. It includes Doris Fleeson, the self-appointed whip of the Democratic Party, who only last week accused her party of McCarthy tactics in castigating the sins of the Eisenhower Administration without offering any salvation for them...
...Lippmann and those who echoed him seemed to slide too easily over a key point: gains made at the expense of increasing government interference with the economy might kill or strangle something more precious than the gain. "We are not slaves to our luxuries," said a member of the Council of Economic Advisers last week. "The workers have achieved a five-day week; they have taken part of their payment in leisure. If we need to produce more, we could go back to a six-day week and get a 20% increase in growth immediately." Said Special Economic Adviser