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Willia anyone for public office as not a Republican, wanted General Eisenhower, the candidate who had eo, to defeat Adlai Stevenson, although he are that a Republican administration was less likely to press for a share ht D Eisenhower - it appeared that the nation did like Ike - was elected as the thirty - fourth President of the United States on 4 November 1952, Williae and could only hope that the experience would persuade hih alone in the future The one small compensation to coressressional seat,to a Republican candidate The Eisenhower jacket had turned out to have coat - tails, and Osborne’s rival had clung to them Thaddeus Cohen was inclined to think that Henry Osborne no longer exerted quite the same influence over Abel Rosnovski that he had in the past The ru his rich wife, Osborne owed large suain

William was happier and more relaxed than he had been for so the prosperous and peaceful era that Eisenhower had prourationTeech

As the first years of the new President’s adan to put Rosnovski’s threats at the back of hisof the past He informed Thaddeus Cohen that he believed they had heard the last of Abel Rosnovski The lawyer niade no comment

He wasn’t asked to

Willia Lester’s, both in size and reputation, increasingly aware that he was now doing it as much for his son as for himself So to him as the ’old man’

:It had to happen,’ said Kate

Then why hasn’t it happened to you?’ replied William

Kate looked up at William and smiled ’Now I know the secret of how you have closed so hed ’And one beautiful woman,’ he added

With Richard’s twenty - firat birthday only a year away, William revised the provisions of his will He set aside five irls, and left the rest of the fao in estate tax He also left one ood use of his four years at Harvard At the start of his senior year, not only did he look set for a Su the cello in the university orchestra, and was a pitcher with the varsity baseball team, which even William had to admire As Kate liked rhetorically to ask, how’baseball for Harvard against Yale and Sunday evening playing the cello in the Lowell concert hall for the university string quartet? The final year passed quickly and when Richard left Harvard, arree in mathematics, a cello and a baseball bat, all he required before reporting to the business school on the other side of the Charles River was a good holiday He flew to Barbados with a girl called Mary Bigelohose existence Richard’s parents were blissfully unaware

Miss Bigelow had studied s, at Vasser, and when they returned two ame colour as the natives, Richard took her hoelow; after all, she was Alan Lloyd’s great niece

Richard returned to the Harvard Business School on I October 1955 to start his graduate work He ’too ’ k up resi dence in the Red House, threw out all William’s cane furni ture and removed the paisley wallpaper that Matthew Lester had once found soroo room, a dishwasher in the kitchen and, elow in the bedroom

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Abel returned fro the news of David Maxton’s fatal heart attack He attended the funeral in Chicago with George and Florentyna, and later told Mrs Maxton that she could be a guest at any Baron in the world whenever she so pleased for the rest of her life She could not understand why Abel had esture

When Abel returned to New York the next day, he was delighted to find on the desk of his forty - second floor office a report fro that the heat was now off In Henry’s opinion, the new Eisenhower administration was unlikely to pursue an enquiry into the Interstate Airways fiasco, especially as the stock had now held steady for nearly a year There had, therefore, been no further incidents to renew any interest in the scandal Eisenhower’s Vice - President, Richard M Nixon, see the spectral communists whom Joe McCarthy missed