Be Prepared

Though he has declared that he will not become an active candidate for his party's presidential nomination, Illinois' onetime (1949-53) Democratic Governor Adlai Stevenson, 60, believes in being prepared. Last week, with Stevenson still away on a tour of Latin America, his friends at home made known that he had enlisted as a fulltime speechwriter a longtime friend: William Attwood, 40, who took a nine-month leave from his job as foreign editor of Look Magazine. Attwood's assignment (for which he will be paid his regular Look salary by a group of Stevenson fans): to author a series of speeches on U.S. high policy, which Adlai Stevenson will deliver mostly to university audiences. With such rhetoric on record, Stevenson will be well prepared, if more active Democratic candidates kill off one another, to accept the party call for the third consecutive time.

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