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University Daily Kansan Tuesday. Jan. 3.1961
JFK Appoints More to Pioneer 'Frontier'
Globe-Trotting Stevenson Will Head U.S. Efforts in U.N.
By United Press International
Adlai E. Stevenson, twice defeated Democratic presidential nominee, was beaten out for a third try for the nomination last summer by John F. Kennedy the man who has named him U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in the new administration.
Since the 1960 Democratic National Convention which saw Kennedy easily clinch the nomination on the first ballot and subsequently win the Nov.8 presidential election, Stevenson campaigned vigorously for Kennedy.
Stevenson stumped mainly in areas he carried in 1956 while running against President Eisenhower for the second time.
STEVENSON ALSO GAINED note as a world traveler since his two unsuccessful drives for the presidency. His tours, among others, took him to South America and to Moscow and a celebrated interview with Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev.
Stevenson was born in Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 5, 1900. He was the son of Lewis Green and Helen Louise (Davis) Stevenson. He was named after his grandfather, Adalie Ewing Stevenson, vice president of the United States during the second term of President Grover Cleveland
Stevenson who now makes his home at Libertyville, Ill., a suburb outside Chicago, attended public school at Bloomington, Ill. He was graduated from Princeton University in 1922, where he was editor of the school newspaper. After graduation he worked on the Daily Pantagraph, a Bloomington newspaper, and also studied law at Harvard and Northwestern University Law School. He was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1926.
FROM 1933 TO 1934, Stevenson served in Washington with the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. He returned to private law practice in Chicago in 1935 but was called, back to Washington July, 1941—this time as special assistant and personal counsel to then Navy
Secretary Frank Knox. He worked at the job until after Knox's death on April 28, 1944. In 1943, under an appointment by President Roosevelt, he headed a mission to Italy to plan economic support and revival of that country following the war.
A series of government jobs followed. He:
- Served in London and European theater of war in 1944 as a member of an Air Force survey mission.
- Was appointed special assistant to then Secretary of State Edward Stettinius to assist in preparation of the United Nations organizations in 1945.
- Was appointed a delegate to the UN General Assembly by President Harry S. Truman in 1946 and 1947.
- In November and December of 1957, at the request of President Eisenhower, served as consultant to the Secretary of State in the preparation for the North Atlantic Treaty Council meeting in Paris.
In between government appointments, Stevenson ran for and won the governorship of Illinois. In 1948 he was elected to Illinois' highest office by the largest plurality in the history of the state. He had served only one term when he was drafted by the Democratic convention to run for President against Eisenhower.
STEVENSON LOST THE election, but in 1956 his party again nominated him, on the first ballot, to challenge President Eisenhower again for the presidency.
Stevenson, the father of three sons, now practices law in Chicago with the firm of Stevenson, Rifkind & Wirtz; Stevenson also maintains another office in New York City and Washington, D. C.
Among other things, Stevenson is the author of five books and a number of magazine articles. He is also a director or trustee of many businesses, educational and philanthropic organizations. In addition he holds honorary degrees from several colleges and universities, including Oxford, Princeton, Columbia and Northwestern.
The tall, lantern-jawed Bowles perhaps has not always obtained what he wanted in public life. For example, there is little doubt that, until recently he hoped to be named secretary of state in the new administration. Nonetheless, he has achieved distinction in politics and diplomacy—his chief endeavors in public life.
BOWLES WHO AMASSED a fortune in business began his public career as director of the Connecticut Office of Price Administration in 1942. A year later, in 1943, he became national OPA chief. He resigned in 1946, unsuccessfully sought the Connecticut Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1946, but won it two years later.
KU Leads Nation In Faculty Housing
By United Press International Chester Bowles, 59, of Essex, Conn. chosen as undersecretary of state in the Kennedy administration, is a former advertising man who retired from business at the age of 40 to plunge into a varied career in public life.
By Borden Elniff
KU is the only university in this country which offers housing for retired faculty members.
Bowles was elected governor by a scant 2,000 votes—a margin so close that Republicans refused to concede his election for two months, delaying his inauguration for four hours.
This housing is the Sprague Apartment building at 14th Street and Lilac Lane, completed this spring at a cost of $200,000.
Bowles embarked on a program which he described as "competent liberalism," seeking to reorganize the state government. He later admitted that he tried too much during his two-year term and consequently stepped on too many toes. He was defeated in his bid for reelection in 1950.
The building contains six two-bedroom apartments renting for $90 monthly and three one-bedroom units at $75 a month. Five of the nine units are occupied.
The housing is proving extremely popular with tenants, who praise its convenience and comfort.
Mrs. Merthyr Shaad, widow of George C. Shaad, who was dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture from 1927 to 1936, said, "I could not ask for anything more. The apartments are very convenient for elderly people."
Other occupants noted the advantages of the building's central campus location. J. J. Wheeler, retired associate professor of mathematics, said he likes the nearness of the units to major campus buildings.
"The library is only two blocks away, and my old office space, as well as the Engineering Library, are within walking distance." he said. He added that the Faculty Club is only a block from the apartments
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Additional tenants include Miss May Gardner, retired professor of Spanish; Herman Chubb, retired professor of political science; and George J. Hood, retired professor of
engineering drawing, and Mrs. Hood.
Construction of the three-story brick and reinforced concrete structure began late in the summer of 1959 on the site of old Templin Hall, a men's dormitory.
Another apartment is scheduled for winter occupancy by W. C. McNown, retired professor of civil engineering, and Mrs. McNown.
BOWLES THEREUPON returned to the national scene as ambassador to India, serving until the Eisenhower administration began in 1953. He won many friends for the United States in that country, urging that for every 10 dollars spent on military defense the U.S. spend one dollar for assistance abroad — backed by technical know-how. He said if this were done, "We will enable the underdeveloped countries to move further ahead in the next generation than in the last 500 years."
By United Press International
Funds for construction were made possible largely through a gift to the KU Endowment Association by Miss Elizabeth Cade Sprague, now deceased, chairman emeritus and founder of the KU home economics department.
Each apartment unit is rented unfurnished, but includes a built-in electric range and oven and a disposal unit, as well as wall-to-wall carpeting.
The building is equipped with an elevator. The main entrance to the building is at the front of the structure, facing Lilac Lane. A second entrance is located on the lower level, adjacent to a paved parking lot.
Paul D. Wilson, building manager, and Mrs. Wilson live in a basement apartment.
The lobby, decorated in tan and green tones, is hung with paintings by Amelia Sprague, sister of the benefactor.
In addition, every tenant has ample closet space and access to a basement storage area and laundry facilities.
He also said that "We will be catastrophically wrong if we assume that we can build a decent world with atom bombs or that we can secure peace by trying to force the world into an American mold."
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Secretary of State Rusk Is Statesman and Scholar
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Dean Rusk, a soft-spoken giant is a noted scholar who has served his country as a statesman and a soldier.
A hard-driving worker with a fast mind, Rusk has been president of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York since 1952. Prior to that he served with the U.S. State Department for six years in several positions.
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He was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Scholastic Fraternity, and received his B.A. degree in 1931. Rusk worked his way through college as a bookkeeper and bank teller. He concentrated his studies on government, economics and international law.
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IN 1934 RUSK became an associate professor of government and dean of faculty at Mills College, Oakland, Calif. It was during his six years at Mills that he met and married Virginia Foisie on June 19, 1937.
Rusk won a Rhodes Scholarship and continued his studies at St. John's College, Oxford University. He received his M.S. degree in 1933 and an M.A. the following year at the University of Berlin, where he saw firsthand the rise of Adolf Hitler.
He also found time to study at the University of California Law School for three years.
UPON HIS DISCHARGE from the army in February, 1946, with the rank of colonel, Rusk was awarded the Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster.
After discharge Rusk was appointed assistant chief of the division of international security affairs in the State Department and served in that post until May, 1946, when he was made a special assistant to Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson.
President Harry S. Truman nominated Rusk for promotion to assistant Secretary of State in 1949. Rusk's appointment was to a new State Department post — assistant secretary for United Nations affairs.
IN 1950, RUSK was named to the key policy post of assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. He resigned in 1952 to head the Rockefeller Foundation.
Rusk lives with his wife, Ginny, and their children, David Patrick, Richard Geary and Margaret Elizabeth, in Scarsdale, N. Y.
The good-looking, baldish Rusk is six feet, six inches tall and weighs about 200 pounds. For relaxation he may turn to golf or tennis and bridge.
He is a life-long Democrat and a member of the Presbyterian Church.
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