5 Feet of Fury

David Horowitz: “Dear Bill…”

“It’s been twenty years since we both went up to Dartmouth to speak in support of the Dartmouth Review students whose battle was an early harbinger of the conservative tide that it is sweeping the campuses today. I recall vividly how you arrived in the evening after a full working day, and spoke for two hours to a thousand Dartmouth youngsters and then hung around until late at night with the Review conservatives whose idol and inspiration you were.

“In the morning, you flew back to New York with us in that tiny commuter plane where you sat crammed between Peter Collier and me in the narrow back row. While we wiped the cobwebs from our eyes and tried to shake off our travel weariness, you banged out your next day’s column on what must have been one of the early lap tops perched on your knees…”