Farewell, my friendsfarewell and hail! I'm off to seek the Holy Grail.
I cannot tell you why.
Remember, please, when I am gone, 'Twas aspiration led me on. Tiddlely, widdlely, tootle-oo. All I want is to stay with you.
But here I go. Goodbye.
Clarence Day
Three days before he was nominated, Adlai Stevenson went to earth at the William McCormick Blair home on Chicago's most aristocratic lane, elm-shrouded Astor Street. What happened after that was enough to make Gold Coast matrons stare as they strolled by with their neatly clipped poodles and haughty Chihuahuas.
Shirtsleeved...