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...four-piece hillbilly band strummed its way through The Last Thing I Want Is Your Pity, then swung nasally into something called I Wish I Knew How Much You Loved Me. Next the featured singer, Senator Glen Taylor, in good voice, harmonized with his family on Dear Hearts & Gentle People. "And believe me, folks," Senator Taylor assured the audience, "we mean this from the bottom of our hearts." Then his talented four-year-old son Gregory rendered It Ain't Gonna Rain No More in Chinese...
Idaho's Senator Taylor was up for renomination. The people of Idaho had heard his songs before. This time they were more interested in his political tune -and whether he had changed it since 1948. Glen wasn't explicit on that point. By running for Vice President under the dark pink banner of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party, he conceded that he had made a "poor political move"-but he was "not apologizing" for it, nor would he now criticize the U.S.S.R. because "I don't want to say anything that might stir up another...
...Mistake. It wasn't a very convincing performance, but Idaho Democrats didn't have much to choose from. Glen's principal rival was D. Worth Clark, whom Glen had unseated back in 1944. Clark, who plays no musical instrument whatever, had gone into law practice with Tommy ("The Cork") Corcoran in Washington, D.C. after his defeat. He scarcely bothered to campaign, and when he did, botched it. On the eve of the election, he began a 15-minute broadcast, but after five fuzzy minutes, it was cut off without explanation. Even so, last week Clark defeated Glen...
...good many Republicans had crossed over into Democratic ranks to vote against Taylor. Republicans who stayed where they belonged had a spectacular candidate of their own: a hefty, hearty rancher and onetime Hollywood lawyer named Herman Welker. Out to "relieve Idaho of the embarrassment of Glen H. Taylor," Welker aimed more oratory at him than at his opponents in his own Republican primary. Welker, a past master of the political cliche ("I wear no man's yoke"), denounced Fair Deal "socialistic schemes," even laid the Korean war on Harry Truman's doorstep...
...more than a year, a tight little group of U.S. consular aides had lived and worked in the tower-topped Glen Line Building on Shanghai's teeming Bund. One day last month, U.S. Consul General Walter P. McConaughy hauled down a tattered flag, locked the doors of his offices and left. For the first time in over 100 years, no U.S. flag flew over a diplomatic post on the Chinese mainland...