Bruce Bliven had been on the editorial board of the leftward-looking New Republic for 23 years, and the magazine's actual editor for 16 of them. Last week he assumed the title of Editorial Director, waited in his 15th-floor Manhattan office for his successor to show up. The new boss came in three hours late. Said Bliven: "Hello, Henry. Come on in and I'll show you your office." Henry Wallace, politician-at-large, had acquired a lever (circ. 45,000) and a place to stand, and would now try to move the world.
To make that lever longer and stronger, rich young Publisher Michael Straight (his...
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