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...campaign staff, Kefauver won his Senate seat in 1948 by defeating the corrupt and powerful Crump machine. After two years as chairman of a special Senate committee investigating organized crime had given Kefauver a national reputation as a soft-spoken crusader for clean government, he decided to challenge President Truman for the nomination...
However, Kefauver was not so exciting to the party bosses. They had resented his crime investigation probes into Washington, Miami, New York, Chicago, Detroit and other cities whose political machines were principally Democratic. His stunning upset victory over Truman in New Hampshire only increased their hostility, and they demonstrated that rank and file support was not a guarantee of political success: in-Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Oregon, for example, Kefauver received 990,877 of the 1,142,528 votes cast, but only 11 1/2 of the 128 unbound delegates at the convention...
...didn't have to do," says Cosmopolitan Editor Helen Gurley Brown. Others who have made the same discovery include Actress Jane Fonda (no peace on earth these days), Heavyweight Muhammad Ali (he is a Black Muslim), Actress Gloria Swanson (Christmas is too complicated as it is), Author Truman Capote ("I loathe all that rushing around and buying just because it's Christmas") and Singer James Taylor. "James probably doesn't even know when Christmas is," explains his secretary. "And if he did send out cards, they wouldn't be printable...
...Rusk's generation-gap difficulties: "A dialogue between those who are beginning to forget and those who have no chance to remember." When President Nixon imposed wage and price controls, Donovan sought out Michael DiSalle for recollections on his days as director of price stabilization in the Truman era. Last week he zeroed in on Coach George Allen of the Washington Redskins, who led the Los Angeles Rams last year; he told Donovan's readers back home: "There's more enthusiasm for football here than in L.A." Said Allen of Football Fan Nixon: "He came back after...
Nancy's dress-designing career began at the age of twelve, when she whipped together a bright fuchsia number that did wonders for her superpudgy figure. The daughter of F. Byrne Austin, who was executive director of the War Claims Commission under Harry Truman, she put together her own gown for the Truman inaugural ball, caught the eye of Washington hostesses and began to design clothes for them...