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...minor throat surgery, decided against running last week because his job in India "is only partly accomplished." Cooper's decision not only forced the Republicans to dig up another candidate; it weakened the G.O.P. ticket and hence the chances of Earle Clements' November opponent, able Thruston B. Morton, 48, who resigned as Assistant Secretary of State to make the senatorial race. Morton, a three-term Congressman before entering the Eisenhower Administration, easily won the G.O.P. senatorial nomination...
More important, the President has dedicated himself to helping the Republican Party recapture Congress. He was active in persuading Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie to run against Senator Warren Magnuson, in talking Assistant State Secretary Thruston Morton into trying for the Senate seat now held by Kentucky's Earle Clements, in arranging for Interior Secretary McKay to hit the Oregon trail against Wayne Morse. Among incumbent Republican Senators who can expect Ike's direct aid are Pennsylvania's Duff, Connecticut's Prescott Bush and Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley...
...What an extremely sad commentary on our culture is shown in your article about Paul Richer and his teaching experience in Riceville, Iowa [April 9]. If many could have their way, they would undoubtedly keep our culture stagnant and static. MORTON DECORCEY NACHLAS Allentown...
...Cole limped offstage, the curtain rustled shut and Comedian Gary Morton edged out to explain that Cole could not continue. Cried a down-front customer: "Ask him to come back so we can apologize." Cole nervously reappeared, and got a five-minute ovation. "I just came here to entertain you," he said when the applause died. "That's what I thought you wanted." Shouted the audience: "We do, we do. Sing. Sing." But the evening was shattered. "Man, I love show business," said Cole backstage, "but I don't want to die for it." After resting...
...MORTON SUMMER...