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...Split Up. In 1937, the brothers split their holdings: Camrose took the magazines and the Telegraph, Kemsley held on to all the other 31 newspapers. Kemsley's dailies, with a circulation of 3.300,000, still account for almost half Britain's total provincial readership, while his Sunday Times, famed for its cultural sections, and his Daily Graphic, appealing to vulgar or common-man tastes, give him a circulation of 1,300,000 in London...
...about that time, Bob Taft called to say that he had read Dulles' foreign-policy views in LIFE and generally agreed with them. Dulles and the Eisenhower forces decided that he should stay publicly neutral to work out a foreign-policy plank that would avoid a party split on that issue. Said Dulles, just before the nomination: "The Eisenhower people told me they felt this was more important than my coming out publicly for their...
...Congressman John Heselton, into a nearby kitchen. Huddling under a wall sign which read "Keep It Clean," Brown offered a two-part deal: 1) the Taftmen would vote in favor of Ike's Louisiana delegation if 2) the Ike-men would accept Senator Taft's 22-16 split of the Texas delegation...
...Taftmen then threw their creaking steamroller into high for the last time. By a vote of 27 to 24, the committee recommended seating of a Texas delegation split 22 for Taft...
...street to a bistro. There they announced that they were quitting the R.P.F. for good. How many Gaullists would follow and vote with Pinay remained to be seen this week. Barrachin claimed 30 Deputies and 20 Senators; loyal Gaullists conceded him at least 30. With the Gaullists thus split, Premier Pinay's cabinet seemed assured a longer lease of life...