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...Washington's social circuit, Mac-Arthur and his witty wife, Laura, daughter of the late Alben Barkley, are much in demand. Laura MacArthur leans naturally toward the Democratic Party; her husband diplomatically describes himself as an independent. MacArthur keeps a motorboat on the Potomac, hopes that when he, Laura, and daughter, Mimi, 19, are settled in Tokyo he will be able to follow a favorite pastime: skindiving...
...Kentucky, the G.O.P. picked up one of the two Senate seats at stake this fall when John Sherman Cooper, 55, former Ambassador to India, defeated former Governor Lawrence W. Wetherby handily in their battle for the remainder of Alben Barkley's term. In the second race, where the traditional Democratic edge also had been whittled by campaign-year squabbles within the party's ranks, ex-Governor Earle C. Clements hung to an uncomfortably narrow lead over Republican Thruston B. Morton...
...spotlight with Dwight Eisenhower when the President flew down to Lexington last week looked more like State Department types than Kentucky politicians. Actually they are both: former U.S. Ambassador to India John Sherman Cooper, dignified and urbane, is running for the four-year unexpired Senate term of the late Alben Barkley; Thruston (pronounced throo-ston) B. Morton, clean-cut and sharp, was John Foster Dulles' assistant for congressional relations before he decided to oppose Democratic Incumbent Earle Clements for Kentucky's second seat...
...Kentucky Republican State Central Committee got the news that it was hoping to hear. From John Sherman Cooper came a telegram saying that he would give up his job as Ambassador to India after all, and would run for the unexpired (four years) U.S. Senate term of the late Alben Barkley...
...Elected in 1946 to fill the unexpired term (two years) of A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, who resigned to become U.S. Commissioner of Baseball; defeated in 1948 by Virgil Chapman; elected in 1952 to fill the unexpired term (two years) after Chapman died; defeated in 1954 by Alben Barkley...