Schlesinger Takes Leave To Help Adlai's Campaign

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., '38, (above) associate professor of History, has taken a leave of absence to work on Gov. Adlai Stevenson's personal campaign staff. Schlesinger's course in American intellectual history, History 169, will be omitted this fall. He will teach the spring half of the course if he returns after the election.

Working out of Springfield, Ill., Schlesinger has been researching material for Stevenson's speeches since early August. His appointment by the Illinois governor brought Republican charges that Stevenson had become the "captive" of the Fair Deal left wing of the Democratic party. Vice-Presidential candidate Richard Nixon singled out Schlesinger in a speech in Maine as a "leader in the leftist Americans for Democratic Action." Schlesinger, an A.D.A. national vice-chairman, has not yet answered Nixon's publicly.

It was Schlesinger who arranged the breakfast meeting of Gov. Stevenson and Averill Harriman at the Democratic National Convention at which Harriman agreed to withdraw in favor of the present nominee.