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...Democratic Senator Herbert Lehman, 78, decided last week that he would not run for reelection, gave his endorsement to New York City's popular Mayor Robert Wagner, who, at week's end, had no real opposition. On the Republican side, the leading contender is G.O.P. Attorney General Jacob Javits, 52, the only Republican to win a statewide office in 1954. New York's November outlook: nip, tuck, and rough...
...Doesn't Pick . . ." Waiting at the inn were his campaign manager, Jim Finnegan (see box), and his old political sponsor, Chicago's Jacob Arvey. Their private discussion of the pros and cons of Adlai's open-race plan floated over an open transom...
...scene: a smoke-filled nook in the grill of Chicago's Democrat-bulged Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel. Dining together are Kentucky's blackhorse presidential candidate, guffaw-prone Governor Albert B. ("Be lucky, go Happy!") Chandler, and Chicago's weighty Democratic Boss Jacob Arvey. Enter, with a dust-devilish swoop, Washington's plain-spoken Hostess-with-Mostes' Perle Mesta. Grandam Mesta (to Chandler): I hear that you are running for President, but you certainly aren't taking yourself seriously, are you? "Happy" Chandler (hurt to the quick): I certainly am. I'm spending...
...Bonn government officials were on hand to listen, and from East Germany came Deputy Premier Otto Nuschke and President Johannes Dieckmann of the East zone's rubber-stamp parliament. While Nuschke fidgeted and nervously massaged his nose, a crowd of 12,000 heard Evangelical Leader Günter Jacob of Cottbus, East Germany describe the sinister magnetism the totalitarian state exerts upon man. Applause had been discouraged by Kirchentag officials, but again and again the crowd broke in to cheer Jacob's words...
Starting a daily paper in the U.S.-even a small one-is a job for a millionaire because of high initial investment, high operating costs. But Millionaire Jacob M. Kaplan thought that he could find a cheaper way. Last week Jack Kaplan, president of Welch Grape Juice Co., launched an experimental tabloid that may well blaze a trail for men who want to start small-town newspapers on comparatively small capital. He began publishing his paper in Middletown, N.Y. (pop. 22,586), pitting it against the well-established, conventional Times-Herald, which is owned by another newspaper experimenter, Ralph Ingersoll...