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Flashing the old indomitable smile that is rarely seen in the papers these days, former Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland showed up at an apolitical love feast in Los Angeles, was embraced by none other than California's Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, who landslid over Knowland in the state's 1958 gubernatorial race. White House Hopeful Brown was there to pass out awards on behalf of the California Newspaper Publishers Association. He handed Bill Knowland, now the editorial panjandrum of the Knowland family-owned Oakland Tribune (circ. 208,198), the first-place plaque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 15, 1960 | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

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