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...toured the state's back parishes, sweating geniality, whomping out Dogpatch oratory, and invoking the magic name of brother Huey (whom he had called a "big-bellied coward" in 1931), the voters found him irresistible. In last week's run-off election, Louisiana gave him the greatest vote ever polled by one candidate-with 44 of 1,878 precincts still to be counted, his total was 422,766. Sam Houston ("Sad Sam") Jones, the "good government" candidate who had beaten Earl for the governorship in 1940 and broken the back of the old Huey Long machine, got only...
Cross country competition in the Ivy League big three will be settled in one triple run-off on the rolling hills of Franklin Park at 12 o'clock today Going into its fourth meet without a clear-eat win to fits credit, the Crimson harriers will face heavy power is both the Varsity and Yardling meets...
Through the 27 days of campaigning for the run-off primary for Texas' governorship, hard-pitching, New Dealing Dr. Homer Price Rainey strove mightily to overcome the 152,000-vote handicap that was indicated by last month's indecisive Democratic primary. Said onetime baseballer Rainey: It won't be over till the last man's out in the ninth...
...workers did not seem greatly interested in either of them. In three NLRB elections last week at the Army-controlled, civilian-operated Oak Ridge atomic-bomb plants, nearly 40% of the 12,000 eligible workers voted to join no union at all. This was enough to force run-off elections all around...
...C.I.O. got the hardest blow to the mazard. At the big Tennessee Eastman Corporation the C.I.O. was out of the race altogether; there the run-off decision would be between no-union and the second-place A.F.L. At Carbide & Carbon and Monsanto Chemical, C.I.O. got snowed under by the A.F.L., but will have a second chance to fight it out again...