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There are still a few Jesuits who perpetuate the Walsh syndrome: Father Daniel Lyons, columnist and founder of the right-wing Catholic newspaper Twin Circle, still hammers away at the containment theme. But he now has an articulate group of opponents within the order. Father Aldon Stevenson, who recently returned to his post at the University of San Francisco after a trip into Mao's China, cited the Communist Chinese as exemplary "anonymous Christians" that Western Christians could well emulate. "People are valued above things," says Stevenson, "and neighbors love and help each other. There is hope in abundance...
...then editor of TIME, T.S. Matthews, a friend and Princeton classmate of Adlai Stevenson, saw things differently. Matthews revised a staunchly Republican writer's first draft of a Stevenson cover story. The revision, says Elson, was "not very good and obviously battle-scarred." It was also inconsistent with an earlier and friendlier Stevenson cover, on the question of the Governor's relations with the Cook County machine. Luce told Matthews to stand aside from the editing of an Eisenhower cover story, at which point, says Elson, Matthews decided to resign. He did so the following year...
...graduated (magna) from Amherst, Robert Kiely was discharged from the Navy where he had been a communications officer and came to Harvard as a graduate student. His doctoral thesis, submitted in 1962, was titled "From Daydream to Modern Epic: A Study of the Adventure Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson." With his PhD, he joined the junior faculty of the English Department, and published his first book, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure, three years later. "The question," wrote Kiely in his introduction, "is whether ... Stevenson has value for the mature reader. My object is to investigate that question...
Kiely was appointed to his position as dean of the Faculty for Undergraduate Education early this Fall. He is the author of Robert Louis Stevenson and the Fiction of Adventure and The Romantic Novel in England...
That battle is spreading beyond Kerner. Cook County Clerk Edward Barrett is currently on trial on charges of taking kickbacks, and more racetrack stock indictments are expected to follow. "The judgment of the court is a tragedy for Judge Kerner and his family " said Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson III. "It is also another verdict of guilt against our politics...