Some readers saw a contradiction in Mr. Lapham's affluent life and his stalwart liberalism. But he said he made his choice soon after graduating from Yale, when he applied for a job with the C.I.A., then a bastion of Ivy League elitism.
The first question he was asked, he said, was "When standing on the 13th tee at the National Golf Links in Southampton, which club does one take from the bag?"
"They wanted to make sure you were the right sort," he explained.
He found the question off-putting and dropped his spy ambitions for a career in journalism, although he said he knew the answer: a 7- iron.
- Robert McFadden, 'Lewis H Lapham, Harper’s Editor and Piercing Columnist, Dies at 89', New York Times, 24 July 2024
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