“Above everything else,” says her sister, “Alice was an idealist.” She admired politicians who, in her view, tried to “help people,” and detested those who were interested solely in their own advancement, or, worse, in using public office to make money. She herself wanted very badly to help people. “She had a very particular view of the kind of place the world should be,” her sister says, “and she was willing to do anything she had to do to make things come out right for people who were in trouble.
