One evening early in 1942 Harris Wofford Jr., 15, was doing his Latin homework and simultaneously listening to his favorite radio program, Mr. District Attorney. When the program ended he did not switch off the radio, because by then he was in the tub. Thus it was that he shortly heard a speaker advancing the merits of Clarence (Union Now) Streit's plan for a federal union of the world's democracies.
Young Mr. Wofford Jr. arose from his bath a convert. Bicycling around suburban Scarsdale, N.Y., he swiftly enlisted a number of his friends at Scarsdale High School in the first student chapter...
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