Handsome William Averell Harriman, whose father left him a railroad kingdom, a fortune of $100,000,000 and a reputation of fearing "neither God nor J. P. Morgan," used to have an eight-goal polo rating. Then he went into diplomacy. Last week high sources in Washington said flatly that Averell Harriman's diplomatic rating had been raised to a ten-goal top, that Franklin Roosevelt would soon name him U.S. Ambassador to Russia to replace Sea Dog William H. Standley.
Industrialist Harriman, 51, looked like a good man for the job. Despite his glittering social background Harriman is no...
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