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...casting about for candidates more to his liking than-Adlai Stevenson (whom he refused to support in 1952), named Ohio's Governor Frank Lausche and Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Anderson, a Texas Democrat, as possibilities. Kennon placed Lausche "in a class with men like Senator Byrd, Governor Allan Shivers and former Governor James Byrnes...
...time rated a likely heir to Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson. Anderson, on leave from his $60,000-a-year job running the 510,000-acre Waggoner ranch and oil properties, has recently been pressed to run for governor of Texas. He has strong support from both Governor Allan Shivers and the anti-Shivers faction of the divided Texas Democratic Party...
Sacrificial Calf. Recently some top Democrats have been working quietly to heal the breach between the National Committee and Governor Allan Shivers, who helped swing Texas to Eisenhower in 1952. Last month, during a Capitol Hill breakfast given by the Speaker of the House, "Mr. Sam" Rayburn of Texas, Chairman Butler and Governor Shivers conferred in the serving kitchen and agreed on an informal peace pact. Shivers privately agreed to choose a new national committeeman from Texas in place of his friend, Wright Morrow, long rebuffed by the National Committee...
...Replied Lehman: "I am not looking for clever deals, Mr. Young." How, Lehman wanted to know, was the purchase financed? How much of their own money did they put up? The Texans borrowed the money, said Young. His Alleghany Corp. had lent $7,500,000; Alleghany's President Allan P. Kirby had anted up another $5,000,000, while a banking syndicate headed by Cleveland's Central National Bank had put up the rest. "Well," said Lehman, "as I understand it, Messrs. Richardson and Murchison did not actually put up any of their own cash...
...illustration. Eugène Delacroix, a Romantic from his flowing locks to his patent leather pumps, found a congenial subject in Hamlet. Honoré Daumier brought his genius for social satire to a masterpiece in the same genre: Don Quixote. And Edouard Manet made a lithograph after Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven that would have delighted would-be-Parisian Poe's anxious heart...