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Married. René Bouché. 56, Manhattan portraitist, Vogue illustrator, TIME cover painter (Jean Kerr, John F. Kennedy, Sophia Loren); and Anne Denise Alicia Lawson-Johnston, 34, a former editor of Vogue; he for the second time, she for the first; in London...
Rollings simply failed to overcome a Johnston image that has been nurtured in ten statewide races since 1930 and solidified by his powerful position in the Senate. Johnston is chairman of the Post Office and Civil Service Committee, vice chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, a ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a member of the Democratic Steering Committee. A neat and frugal man who washes his own socks every night and sews on his own buttons, Johnston has the reputation of getting what he wants for South Carolina. Since the Kennedy Administration came into office...
Serious Candidate. In South Carolina, where a victory in the Democratic primary is almost the same as election, the Republicans have put up a serious Senate candidate for the first time since Reconstruction. Running against Johnston will be William D. Workman Jr.. 47, a segregationist and former reporter (he still writes a syndicated column) who joined the Republican Party only last fall...
Workman plans to appeal to both conservative Democrats and Republicans with a platform attacking "the welfare state, the diminution of local government and the grab for power in Washington." But Johnston does not seem worried. "I'll cross that bridge when I come to it." he says, "but I think I'll have a good strong bridge to go across. I'm not fearin' it very much...
...feet away (or. if it was not there, at the Senate carpet), often rose to his feet in the Senate in a fit of temper, hacked petulantly on the arm of his chair with a penknife if he could not get the presiding officer's attention. He defeated Johnston in Johnston's first try for the Senate, died in 1944 before he could finish his lame-duck term...