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...powerful Bees were responsible for electing a Democratic state attorney general, Edmund G. Brown, in 1950, the only Democrat to win a high state office. Republican Governor Earl Warren is grateful for their support. But in the last presidential election, the Bees could not make up their minds, so they supported neither Truman nor Dewey. "If you don't know yourself who the best man is," says Eleanor, "you can't tell others. You just turn 'em loose and let 'em vote...
...Earl C. Ravenal '53 of Eliot House and Providence, and Paul F. Cooper '52 of Lowell House and Cooperstown, N.Y. have received Henry Fellowships for one year's study in England, trustees of the Henry Fund announced yesterday...
Bitter Victory. In the January Democratic primary, Earl's man ran first in a field of nine (TIME, Jan. 28). But it was a bitter victory. Spaht got 158,839 votes, only about one-third of the total. The second man, tall, homespun Judge Robert F. Kennon of Minden, had 154,812. That called for a runoff. The seven losing candidates promptly swung behind Kennon...
...opponents of the Long dynasty had some interesting points to raise. Earl had carried on for the family after Brother Huey ("Kingfish") was cut down by an assassin in 1935, seven years after he had founded the line. Earl lost control when the citizens revolted and turned him out of the governor's office in 1940, but he staged a comeback in 1948. In the governor's chair once again, he out-Hueyed Huey and his "make every man a king" program. Earl gave the state big old-age pensions, cheap school lunches, veterans' bonuses and highway...
Said Governor Earl Warren as he made the award: "New buildings are wonderful and necessary, but they don't cure anybody. We need people with warm hearts, understanding minds, willing hands and a great love for humanity-in short, people like Mrs. Bray...