Briefly Noted
Quotations from Chairman LB], a little red book which is the tongue-in-cheek counterpart of the sayings of Chairman Mao Tse-tung of Communist China, has been compiled by Christopher S. Wren '57 and Jack Shepherd (Simon and Schuster, 189 pp., $2.00) and has had national publicity and a large sale. Mr. Wren is a senior editor of Look Magazine.
In their foreword the "translators" write: "These quotations have been taken from the speeches, musings and digressions of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Their date and source are noted for reference. No effort has been made to rework these heroic thoughts into grammatical English. Let workers, peasants, students, housewives and Republicans study, memorize and digest the exhortations of Chairman Johnson. Let little children add their tiny voices to public and private recitations of these joyous inspirations." This foreword and the opening and closing quotations - "Hello down there. This is your candidate, Lyndon Johnson" (campaigning by helicopter for U. S. Senate, Texas 1948) ... "I'm the only President you've got" (Washington, D. C„ April 27, 1964) - serve to indicate the irreverent spirit of the take-off.
The editors of Nation's Business have published Lessons of Leadership: 21 Top Executives Speak Out on Creating, Developing andManaging Success, published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., at $4.95. Among the executives is George Champion '26, a history and political science major, now Chairman of the Board of Chase Manhattan, the world's second largest commercial bank. In "Preaching What You Practice," he proclaims his "deep conviction [that] the government can't solve all our problems" and "great faith in the individual, in his honesty, integrity and judgment." We must curtail military spending in Europe, work resolutely towards a balanced budget, put great reliance on multilateral aid rather than on bilateral, and restrict domestic spending. Businessmen either as candidates or workers should involve themselves in politics. Active in charities, Mr. Champion was National Chairman of the 1967 United Negro College Fund Campaign. "The individual is the key element in the successful operation of any economic system .. . and [should] be given adequate incentives." The free market system "provides by all odds the best allocation of economic resources." The opportunities for success today are greater than in 1926. As a guard on the 1925 undefeated Dartmouth football team, Mr. Champion now keeps himself in shape by playing golf, sometimes with General Eisenhower. If Mr. Champion were 21 with free choice of career, he would apply for a job in The Chase Manhattan Bank.
Wilbur H. Ferry '32, Vice President of the Fund for the Republic, Inc., and a staff associate of its Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, has moved from a magazine article into a book. "Must We Rewrite the Constitution to Control Technology?" (Saturday Review ofliterature, March 2), has been reprinted in full in the Congressional Record (March 4), recommended by the Hon. Cornelius Gallagher of New Jersey, Chairman of the Special Subcommittee on the Invasion of Privacy. He describes Mr. Ferry's analysis as "a bold and commendable contribution to reasserting the right of man to be liberated by machines, rather than to be subservient to them." Mr. Ferry regrets that "technology is subtracting as much or more from the sum of human welfare as it is adding" and that" Technology is the American theology promising salvation by material works." He closes with a quotation from Robert L. Heilbroner's estimate of the time available: ". . .the coming generation will be the last generation to seize control over technology before technology has irreversibly seized control pver it. A generation is not much time, but it is some time."
Albert Nathaniel Drake '43 in The Nameof Drake, a booklet of 15 pages ($2 at the Hawaiian Printing Company, Ltd., 647 Auahi St., Honolulu), attempts to establish fundamental facts in the over-all family history from sixth century Devonshire to contemporary America. The booklet opens with verses, A Ballad of Musbury" by J. W. Brady Moore, describing how Drake of Exmouth sought a wife in Ashe and gives a Picture of Musbury Church where they were married. Other illustrations are of Ashe House, the monument of Sir Richard Drake, and the head and shoulders of Sir Francis rake with an account of the famous 1577 voyage with nine ships and 54 days at sea before South America was sighted, resulting in booty of 500,000 pounds or $17,500,000 in present value. The stockholders, of whom Queen Elizabeth was one, are supposed to have received 800% on their investment. No wonder she knighted him!
John Otis Brew '28 is the subject of a memoir prepared for the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, by Walter Muir Whitehill, a member of the faculty. A blue paper-covered booklet of 16 pages, it is published by the Ciub of Odd Volumes in Boston. As Director of Peabody for 40 years (1948-1967), Mr. Brew has focussed his interest in Southeastern Utah (particularly the great Alkali Ridge site, recently designated as a National Historic Landmark), the Hopi country of Northeastern Arizona (Awotavi and the many pre-historic sites near it), and West-Central New Mexico (Awotavi and the many pre-historic sites near it), and West-Central New Mexico (centering on Quemado). Under him a large and meticulously selected staff and crew with a wide range of scientific specialties were able to attack a broad range of problems extending far beyond the usual archaeological limitations of excavating rooms and burials and examining the associated architectural and artifactual details. The Peabody staff have excavated in Ohio, the Mississippi Valley, the Southwest, Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru. They are at home among the pygmies of the Kalahari Desert of Southwest Africa, the jungles of New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. They dig Les Eyzies in the Dordogne, measure skulls in the Caucasus, and collect masks in Liberia.
