He didn't claim to be an educator, but he did have a big name and he was temporarily out of a job. To at least four universities who were looking for a president (Stanford, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, and Pennsylvania), that made Harold Stassen a likely presidential prospect.
An emissary from the University of Pennsylvania first sounded Stassen out a day after the G.O.P. convention endedwithout indicating what uniyersity he represented. He found Stassen receptive. A week later Penn offered him the presidency. Last week, "after careful consideration," Harold Stassen accepted. He would report for...
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