S. I. Hayakawa

Canadian-American linguist who wrote the book that actually carried General Semantics to a mass readership, then became a college president and a US Senator — a trajectory his fellow general semanticists viewed with mixed feelings.

If Korzybski wrote the scripture, Hayakawa wrote the readable version. Millions of American students met "the map is not the territory" through him and never heard the Polish name behind it.