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...other members: former Harvard President James B. Conant, Caltech President Lee A. DuBridge, Author Ralph Ellison, Ambassador to Switzerland John S. Hayes, University of Illinois President David D. Henry, Houston Post Chairman Oveta Culp Hobby, J. C. Kellam (manager of Lyndon Johnson's broadcasting holdings), Polaroid President Edwin H. Land, Reynolds Metals President Joseph H. McConnell, Hampshire College President Franklin Patterson, former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford, TV Producer Robert (Omnibus) Saudek, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, and United Auto Workers' Executive Leonard Woodcock...
...Sidney Kellam, the congenial, Maciavellian political leader of Virginia Beach, the state's fastest-growing city, had stored up credits among Negroes when he desegreated Virginia Beach's public accomodations, almost overnight, six months before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Last year he guided Godwin through a series of meetings with Negro leaders...
...Organization had begun to bend--and crack. Thousands of conservatives who had clung to Harry Byrd's Democratic party found no home in the party of Godwin and Kellam. Last July, thy created the Virginia Conservative Party and attracted more than 70,000 votes for their candidate, William Story, an assistant school superintendent (since retired) and John Birch Society member. Last week they announced their own ticket for the Senate and urged their supporters to stay out of the Democratic primary...
Virginia's political picture this year is far more uncertain than it was last fall. Kellam and other leaders of the Organization tried to persuade Robertson, 79 years old today, to withdraw in favor of a younger Organization candidate. Kellam failed, and has endorsed Robertson and Byrd...
...Johnson family member has a direct interest in the company. Yet an example of Brazos-Tenth's complicated intertwining with the Johnsons turned up in early 1962. On Feb. 1 the LBJ Co. sold some subdivided lots to Brazos-Tenth. The deed was signed by J. C. Kellam, president of the LBJ Co., and by Donald Thomas, the LBJ Co. secretary. Before the day was over, essentially the same real estate package was sold by Brazos-Tenth to Lyndon Johnson himself. Again Donald Thomas signed the deed-this time as president of Brazos-Tenth...