Word: lippmanns
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Kennedy provided ample evidence of becoming the best hide-and-seek player the presidency has ever had. One afternoon, after a quick visit to Georgetown University Hospital to see Wife Jacqueline and their new son, he vanished to the suburbs for an hour's chat with Pundit Walter Lippmann. Next night in Manhattan two policemen knocked on his hotel door to ask if he would care for a midnight snack. Getting no answer, they went inside, found only a slightly mussed bed, a discarded Kennedy shirt; Jack had slipped away to visit friends. The following afternoon, with the connivance...
...better at secret decisions than, say, the historian in the street, whose discipline is also constantly undergoing revision. Probably neither would do well as a politician. Only Snow's immense common sense keeps him from sounding like the post-World War I expert-ists such as Veblen and Walter Lippmann...
...personal inclination, the dean of the pundits, Walter Lippmann, 71, has in the past often stayed rather above and beyond the smoke of political battle.* This year Lippmann is blazing away for Kennedy. He is one of the few pundits who have made a personal declaration in print: Kennedy, wrote Lippmann, would "make much the better President.'' To Lippmann, it "has been truly impressive to see the precision of Mr. Kennedy's mind, his singular lack of demagoguery and sloganeering, the stability and steadfastness of his nerves, his coolness and his courage -the recognizable marks...
...Said Syndicated Columnist Marquis Childs: "A new kind of party is coming into being." Or as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Raymond P. Brandt put it, "the Massachusetts Senator has virtually assured himself [of victory] over the old-line professional politicians." All in all, concluded Lippmann, the Democrats "feel, perhaps rightly, that they are riding the wave of the future...
...behind. Scripps-Howard Columnist Andrew Tully wrote glowingly of the candidate's heroic character: "This was the Jack Kennedy who saved a PT-boat crew in the Pacific's wartime waters." Smiled the Herald Tribune's Roscoe Drummond: "He is pleasant to know." Walter Lippmann paid tribute to "his youth, his sharp and trained intelligence, and his undoubted popular magnetism." Even the New York Post's sour-tempered Murray Kempton broke down and confessed that the young man from Boston was "an engaging fellow"-thereby leaving Westbrook Pegler almost alone to carry the dissent: "A hard...