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...distinguished Kentucky family. He was a successful businessman (Louisville's Ballard & Ballard flour mills, now owned by Pillsbury), performed admirably in his three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, has since been valuable to the Eisenhower Administration as Assistant Secretary of State in charge of congressional liaison. But Thruston (rhymes with Houston) Morton also has a statewide political handicap in historically Democratic Kentucky. He is a Republican...
...second startling fruit of the liaison, Four Saints in Three Acts was presented in Hartford by "The Friends and Enemies of Modern Music." Four Saints met with phenomenal success--in its cellophane settings, biting themes, and all-Negro cast. When informed that some residents of Hartford looked askance at the colored performers, Virgil T. quipped, "Tell the cast to go on whiteface." He chose the Negroes, he said, for their beauty of voice, clarity of enunciation, and fine carriage. Gertrude remained in Paris, despite this word from Virgil...
Botswick said he had received no direct message from Thomson concerning the Bridges speech, but admitted that "somebody at Harvard" had been in touch with him. "I was approached by one of Harvard's Republican alumni who was in liaison, I imagine, with Thomson," Botswick added...
Immediately below Adams is his deputy, soft-spoken Major General (ret.) Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, 59. Persons spent 13 years as an Army liaison man on Capitol Hill, part of that time as Army Chief of Staff Eisenhower's representative with Congress. Under Persons, as liaison men with Congress, are Administrative Assistants I. Jack Martin, 47, and Bryce Harlow, 39. Martin, onetime administrative assistant to Senator Robert A. Taft, is especially liked and respected on the Hill...
...same level are Deputy Assistants Fred Seaton, 46, and Howard Pyle, 49. Seaton, a Midwest newspaper publisher, served briefly as a U.S. Senator from Nebraska. A longtime Stassen supporter, he switched to Eisenhower early in 1952, was a trusted campaign adviser. He acts as the White House liaison man with Government agencies. Pyle, a onetime radio announcer, served two terms as governor of Arizona, was defeated in 1954. He now specializes in federal-state relations, e.g., highways and other projects involving grants...