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Nevertheless, South Carolina's Donald B. Russell, 59, last week quit as Governor, turned the post over to Lieutenant Governor Robert E. McNair, 41, who then appointed Russell to the Senate seat left vacant after the death of Olin Johnston on April 18. Johnston was a Senate veteran of 21 years who made his Capitol Hill name as chairman of the patronage-wielding Post Office and Civil Service Committees and maintained his home-state political power through a vast network of country-store and piny-woods cronies...
Russell is the farthest thing in the world from the Johnston sort of wool-hat politician. A lawyer by profession, Russell amassed a fortune estimated at $40 million in banking, auto financing and other investments, served without pay for five years as president of the University of South Carolina...
Boston. . . well, what can you say about the Bruins? Dean Prentice, Bobby Leiter, Forbes Kennedy, Tom Johnson, and goalie Eddie Johnston have all been sidelined for the year with injuries, and Boston didn't have a chance to break its four-year string of last-place finishes...
...really like Hubert," he says, "but I know the difficulty of carrying that load in the South." At any rate, he accepted the duty, seconded Humphrey, and even looked as though he enjoyed it. Johnson also arranged for a domesticated Deep Dixie Senator, South Carolina's Olin Johnston, to make the motion that Humphrey be nominated by acclamation...
...Democrats- 21 H. F. Byrd (Va.) R. Long (La.) R. C. Byrd (W.Va.) McClellan (Ark.) Eastland (Miss.) Robertson (Va.) Ellender (La.) Russell (Ga.) Ervin (N.C.) Smathers (Fla.) Fulbright (Ark.) Sparkman (Ala.) Hayden (Ariz.) Stennis (Miss.) Hill (Ala.) Talmadge (Ga.) Holland (Fla.) Thurmond (S.C.) Johnston (S.C.) Walters (Tenn.) Jordan...