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Policy of Grandeur. Raymond Aron, the Walter Lippmann of France, who writes in the conservative Figaro, has now changed his mind about continuing to be tough in Algeria, believes loss of the empire is inescapable in the near future because "in 'the long run a country cannot play a role abroad out of proportion to its means." Aron, who blames a "policy of grandeur" for France's colonial mess, advises an approach to the National Front or "at least to recognize the vocation of Algeria to independence...
...congestion and public reaction to planning were stressed by the two other speakers on the program, Victor Gruen, an architect, and Andrew Heiskell, publisher of Life magazine. Heiskell emphasized the opposition encountered by city planners, and quoted early abuse of Rockefeller Center by the New York Times and Walter Lippmann, who called Radio City Music Hall "a pedestal for a peanut...
...become a dragon who was devouring the common man. To Hoover, Roosevelt was at worst an economic madman, at best a mere "featherduster" (the nickname had been devised by kindly friends who considered F.D.R. a mental lightweight, a view then shared by Mr. Justice Holmes and Pundit Walter Lippmann. among others). In the first of four volumes on The Age of Roosevelt, the author of The Age of Jackson now tells how the featherduster became a shining knight who slew the dragon...
Taking a view held by most columnists, Walter Lippmann decided that "the central contest is for the vote of the Democrats and of the independents with Democratic leanings who in 1952 voted for Eisenhower, but did not vote for other Republican candidates." Wrote Lippmann: "Governor Stevenson is trying to win back...
...baseball game has become unimportant). The daily press threw new energy and new talent into exploring the offbeat byways of color and anecdote as well as the lofty heights of analysis and interpretation. Ironically, some of the best punditry came not from Chicago but from Washington, where Columnist Walter Lippmann watched the convention on TV. Some of the sidebars ran to outlandish trivia, e.g., the contents of Adlai Stevenson's laundry bag, but some of it reached new levels of excellence. For entertainment, few reporters could equal the New York Herald Tribune's wisecracking Sports Columnist Red Smith...