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Died. Victor A. Johnston, 66, longtime Republican senatorial campaign director, known as "the silver fox of Capitol Hill" because of his handsome white mane and his sharp nose for turning up election funds, who in 18 years raised uncounted millions to help such candidates as Harold E. Stassen, Joseph McCarthy, Robert A. Taft, and Barry Goldwater, and counted as one of his toughest jobs finding financial support last year for Oregon's Mark Hatfield, whose dovelike stand on Viet Nam soured many powerful G.O.P. moneymen; of a heart attack; in Miami...
...level by Feb. 26. One day later, all seven tried a 3,000-ft. dash to the summit. They were forced back by "white-out"-zero visibility, caused by fog against the snow. Next day, three of the party-Art Davidson, Ray Genet and Dave Johnston-struck out again for the top, finally made it at 7 p.m., paused just long enough to bury Batkin's cap and started back down, only to run into a raging storm...
...HARRY JOHNSTON'S death diminishes the South." Thus one of the nation's leading editors, Eugene Patterson of the Atlanta Constitution, saluted Reporter Harry Johnston, who died at 48, of emphysema and pneumonia, in his fourth year as chief of Time's Atlanta bureau...
Editor Patterson published his warm tribute to Johnston in the Constitution, and since it says so much so well about the problems confronting a conscientious craftsman reporting on the troubled South, we quote from it here as a shared salute to the memory of a colleague: "He was no angry liberal in the ideological sense. He was in fact a pretty conservative fellow. But he did not like to see little people pushed around. It was that simple with him. He didn't care what color the little people were. He held in utter contempt those political poses designed...
...worth of what he was trying to do for them. He was one of the band of native news writers who had both sense and guts, and who devoted their lives to the hard business of drawing the picture clear in the South. Softhearted, hard-nosed and levelheaded, Harry Johnston served us all in his too-brief years...