Leland Matthew Goodrich

Leland Matthew Goodrich 1899-1990, American political scientist, b. Lewiston, Maine, grad. Bowdoin College, 1920, and Harvard (M.A., 1921; Ph.D., 1925). He taught political science at Brown Univ. (1922-23, 1926-50) and was professor of international organization and administration at Columbia Univ. from 1950 until 1967, when he became emeritus professor of international relations. Goodrich was director of the World Peace Foundation from 1942 to 1946 and a member of the secretariat at the founding conference of the United Nations at San Francisco in 1945. His works, many of them collaborations, include Charter of the United Nations: Commentary and Documents (1946, with Edvard Hambro; 3d ed. 1969), The United Nations and the Maintenance of International Peace and Security (1955, with Anne Simons), Korea: A Study of U.S. Policy in the United Nations (1956), The United Nations (1959), and The United Nations in a Changing World (1974). He edited Documents on American Foreign Relations, Vol. IV (1942, with S. S. Jones and Denys Myers) and Vol. V-VII (1945, with M. J. Carroll).

State of the Union (1945), a comedy by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. [Hudson Theatre, 765 perf.; Pulitzer Prize.] Having been out of power for so long, the Republicans are desperate to find a candidate who will win them the White House. Led by James Conover ( Minor Watson), they pick an idealistic industrialist, Grant Matthews ( Ralph Bellamy). For him to win it will be necessary for his wife, Mary ( Ruth Hussey), to campaign with him, since rumors are rife that Grant has been having an affair with the publisher Kay Thorndyke ( Kay Johnson). Conover is quick to assure Mary that there will be no problems. After all, there is only one fundamental difference between the Democrats and the Republicans, “They're in—and we're out!” But a problem arises when Grant's idealism is too much for the political bosses, and rather than compromise his beliefs, Grant withdraws. The comedy was said to have been suggested loosely by the career of Wendell Willkie. To keep the Leland Hayward production up to the minute, especially when certain headlines had to be read, the authors nightly wired all companies minor changes in the script.