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...turns out, the Swede (screen newcomer Burt Lancaster) was a natural born fall guy. By the time such seasoned misbehaviorists as Albert Dekker and Ava Gardner are through with him, the double-and triple-crossings get so thick that his death seems about the only simple thing in his career...
Last week the Daily Post, along with the rest of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co.'s big newspaper chain, wound up a booming campaign for Burt Wheeler's renomination in Montana's Democratic primary. But it was not enough. Burt Wheeler was soundly beaten (49,401 to 43,729). His defeat, like his conversion to the "copper collar," was the measure of the disrepute into which fractious Burt Wheeler had fallen...
...took his measure was smart, strapping (6 ft. 3 in.; 210 lbs.) Leif Erickson. A friendly, balding lawyer with a big, booming voice, he got his start long after Burt Wheeler had become a veteran of the Senate...
...Step. For Burt Wheeler it was a strange climax to a strangely twisted career. He had sailed triumphantly into Washington as the fighting apostle of Western liberals, won quick fame by dethroning Harding's President-maker, Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty. Over the long haul he had earned a solid reputation as eleven-year head of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee and its liberal, conscientious expert on railway legislation. At one time he was sure he would be picked as Franklin Roosevelt's running mate. But then he wandered off into the dead end of isolationism. Somewhere...
...fifth U.S. Senator denied renomination this year.* But he was still Burt Wheeler, and the country was still out of step with him. Said he: ". . .I am proud of the record I have made and I am confident that time will vindicate that record...