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Meanwhile Hal Styles went on explaining & explaining. His best: "My life is an open book, with a few pages stuck together...
Campaigning in San Francisco, Vice Presidential Candidate Harry Truman amiably endorsed the entire California Democratic ticket. A reporter cut in sharply: did that include Hal Styles (candidate for Congressman from Hollywood, exposed last month as a onetime Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan)? Harry Truman said blandly he was for anybody who was for Franklin Roosevelt...
...three folksy, saccharine radio programs he conducts over Hollywood's KFWB, Hal Styles promptly made the most of this topflight support. He plastered Hollywood with 60 billboards proclaiming, "Senator Truman says: 'I'm for Styles...
...Hal Styles came to California in 1932. For twelve years he read poetry, platitudes and "notes from my magic scrapbook of life" over the radio, became a favorite of Los Angeles housewives. Last May he took his kitchen popularity into politics, trounced union-hating John M. Costello in the Democratic primary. Hollywood's liberal Democrats cheered. P.A.C. boasted nationally that this was their work. But these happy pink faces turned lobster red when Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner dug up the fact that Styles had been a Klansman in Queens County...
...dopesters were sure that Hal Styles' goose was cooked-despite the support of Truman and P.A.C.-and that the district would now go Republican...