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"Estes Kefauver was the most authentic--and most successful--maverick in American political history." So begins Joseph Bruce Gorman's biography of the Tennessee Senator who sought the Presidency twice in that forgotten decade of the 1950s. Yet Gorman's lengthy record of Kefauver's political life belies his opening...
It was in New Hampshire that year that Kefauver proved the effectiveness of the exhausting, person-to-person campaign technique he developed in Tennessee. He attended tea parties, church breakfasts and club luncheons, all day and into the night. Gorman writes that Kefauver "would go to the top floor of...
In the number one singles match Carolyn Estes of Colby beat Radcliffe junior Sarah Stearns, 6-2, 6-4. Another Cliffe junior, Meg Morgan, lost to Nancy Mungall, 2-6, 6-3, 8-6, at number two.
Died. Joe Adonis, 69, the onetime East Coast gambling czar, described by the late crime-fighting Senator Estes Kefauver as "the most sinister of all U.S. underground figures"; of heart disease; in Ancona, Italy. Born Giuseppe Doto, "Joe A." became a Brooklyn rumrunner and a kingpin of "Murder Inc.," later...
During six years spent in a law firm in Austin, Wilson was the principal attorney of Banker-Land Developer Frank Sharp. Sharp pleaded guilty earlier this year to federal fraud charges and, in testimony before Securities and Exchange Commission investigators, implicated Wilson in some of the business deals that preceded...