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...names of potential candidates: Tom Dewey, onetime Attorney General Herbert Brownell, U.S. Senator Jacob Javits. onetime G.O.P. National Chairman Hall. As a longshot he added Rockefeller, who had been a dependable campaign contributor ($10,000 a year). Morehouse dispatched poll takers across the state to see which name rang bells, was not surprised when Three-Termer Dewey's bonged loudest. But chiming in second place and tolling louder with each sample was Nelson Rockefeller. Realist Morehouse tore up his list, began to pump for Rockefeller. Said he to a gathering of county leaders: "Either you guys support me while...
...Minnesota, stirred by a lively competition between onetime Governor Hjalmar Peterson and Representative Eugene McCarthy for the senatorial nomination, Democrats moved pollwards in impressive hordes, handed McCarthy a rousing majority of 176,000-and some 40,000 more votes than Republican Incumbent Edward Thye rang up in his race for the Republican nomination against two little-known competitors. Consensus for November: Thye will have to hustle to keep his seat. Neither the wraithlike opposition of Marvin A. Evenson, a Moorhead businessman, nor the wrath of her husband Andy, who cried bitterly and vainly for Representative Coya Knutson to come home...
...When it rang down the curtain on its 4Oth season last week, the St. Louis municipal open-air opera could not only boast that it was "alone in its greatness" -it was also lonely in its solvency. St. Louis, its production costs breaking the $1,000,000 mark for the first time, spiced up its shows through the 12-week season with such stars as Bob Hope (in Roberta) and Andy Devine (in Show Boat), and, despite four rained-out performances, pulled a record 650,000 customers. It was a big enough gate to win the battle against night baseball...
...able to attract many of the prima donnas in American theology -the men of academic glamour." As a result, many denominational seminaries feel "that they ought to focus down on the education of ministers and pastors, and leave the training of scholars to others. This is the mood that rang all the alarm bells...
...team reached shore, Bob Murphy was on hand to greet them: "Welcome to North Africa." That day, in a red-roofed villa on the road to Algiers. Clark and Murphy ate bread, jam and sardines, plotted the North African invasion with French leaders brought by Murphy. Suddenly the telephone rang, followed by the cry: "The police will be here in a few minutes." Tipped off in time's nick, Mark Clark and his men ducked desperately into the wine cellar. Murphy, an aide and a French officer remained upstairs, tipsily greeted the cops, clanked bottles, sang noisily, urged...