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...specific issue was a seat on the House Ways and Means Committee, which must pass on all revenue legislation, including the Kennedy Administration's 1963 tax program and medicare bill. There were two vacancies on Ways and Means that would go to Democrats. Tennessee's Ross Bass had already nailed down one of them-and McCormack already had promised the other to Georgia's Phil Landrum, 53, co-author of the Landrum-Griffin Labor Bill and, until recently, a certified conservative...
...Southern conservatives into the liberals' camp. In the Democratic caucus, the vote for the available Ways and Means place was 161 for Pat Jennings, the only liberal member of Virginia's House delegation, to 126 for Landrum. Since both Jennings and Tennessee's Bass are loyal Administration supporters, their election certainly strengthened the chances of passing the fiscal legislation President Kennedy believes is vital. But McCormack's inability to deliver his end of the bargain was an ominous sign, another reminder of the tenuous control the Administration's chief spokesman exercises over the Democratic Party...
...townsmen, who now form something like a private labor union inside modern jazz. Hank Jones remains his idea of a really good pianist, and for the trio he hopes to form eventually, he would like Hank's brother Elvin on drums and Detroit's Major Holley on bass...
...days a year, Pasadena. Calif., is a gentle, cultivated city populated by little old ladies who sit behind lace curtains and, according to legend, knit Volkswagens. But on New Year's Day. Pasadena is no place for the timid. Bass drums defile the dawn, and the aroma of American Beauty mingles with the perfume of nervous palomino. The Tournament of Roses parade is all about girls and beauty; the afternoon's football game is supposed to separate the men from the boys...
...quick mind and near-photographic memory are hidden by a deceptively casual manner. During office hours, he is as likely as not to be found in a staff member's office, feet propped on the desk, puffing his ever present pipe, and talking about the 5-lb. bass he caught that morning near his Lake Minnetonka home between 5 a.m., when he arises, and 7:30, when he gets to work. Rawlings hates committees, delegates work to individual staff members and expects results. "He doesn't expect people to come to him with questions, but rather with answers...