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Died. Walter Jodok Kohler Jr., 71. three-term Republican Governor of Wisconsin (1951-56); of heart disease; in Sheboygan, Wis. The son of a former Wisconsin Governor and a member of the family that owns Kohler Co., one of the nation's largest manufacturers of plumbing equipment, Kohler was a solid backer of the Eisenhower Administration. His political career ended when he lost to liberal Democrat William Proxmire in the 1957 race for the Senate seat left vacant by the sudden death of Joseph R. McCarthy...
...looked a fine community, and there sure were some great muskies, he'd heard, in Canada, but he hadn't been able to reel any in. Then two Kodakolor snapshots of Whitmore trudging across the campground puffing on a pipe, wearing sneakers. Picture courtesy of Mrs. Ellen Scholl, Sheboygan, Wisc. The clip was ten years old--1965. Anyway, poor James Whitmore, star of the early fifties sci-fi feature Them, the hero of a couple of short-lived series like The Law and Mr. Jones, and a dead ringer for Spencer Tracy, is now getting a lot of attention...
Stories about crawfish racing in Louisiana, displaced Hillbillies in Detroit, a Baptist convention in Georgia, the Elks Club in Nebraska, mushball in Sheboygan, Wisconsin: these are the "human interest" features, still looking a mite incongruous beside the troubled headlines, that bob up on the front of the second section, or snake around the Gimbel's and Macy's advertisements. These are the stories that, according to the book's Preface, "do not break," but "trickle, seep, and ooze. The Times is covering the ooze...
Still, the issue of Watergate was clearly gnawing at some voters. When Steiger asked a meeting of the Sheboygan Kiwanis Club how many wanted the President to disclose more facts, every man raised his hand. They looked around and grinned at their own unanimity. The mood in the room was that if the President would just come clean, he would be forgiven...
...Bananas, a city employee, thinks he knows the root of the trouble: "It's Ellsberg and all those Commies. Nixon did the right thing. He's protecting the country from subversives." R. Thorne Ellis, salesman for Sheboygan Paints, offers another defense: "At least the Republicans didn't kill anybody-like Chappaquiddick...