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...added for each new state, effective the Fourth of July following admission to the Union. In the congressional hopper are proposals, drawings and samples of 49-star flags. Suggestions: five rows of five and four rows of six; 49 stars in a wheel; 49 stars spelling out U.S.A. The 49th star is still waiting. For the story of what it may represent, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Land of Beauty & Swat...
...theme had whisked like a williwaw across the territory, sweeping up the visionaries, tossing the stubborn into stormy waves of opposition. In Washington, Alaska's longtime (first elected in 1944) delegate to Congress, onetime Gold Miner Bob Bartlett, spent his days and nights trying to carve out a 49th star on an unrelenting congressional conscience. Another missionary was a former newsman and editor of the Nation, Dr. Ernest Gruening (TIME, June 16, 1947), appointed Governor of Alaska by Franklin Roosevelt in 1939. A diehard conservationist, crusty Ernest Gruening soon realized that Alaska's sleeping giant needed prodding, even...
...Chances are better than ever that Alaska may become the 49th state this year. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, long an opponent, has been won over, and will urge Virginia's Howard Smith, Rules Committee chairman, to clear the way for an Alaska statehood bill. (Southerners still suspect that any new Democratic Senators from Alaska may vote against them in civil rights.) The Republicans are for statehood, thanks partly to the popularity of Alaska's energetic young (38) Republican Governor Mike Stepovich, and the prospect that Alaskan Senators might turn out to be Republican after all. Informal polls...
...tall handsome youth raced through the rain at London Airport to a waiting plane. With His Highness Prince Karim, fourth Ago Khan, 20, and 49th Imam of the world's Ismaili Moslems, was his father, Prince Aly Khan, bypassed by the late Aga in deciding his successor. Two days later in the African city of Dar Es Salaam in Tanganyika, on the western shore of the Indian Ocean, Aga Khan IV was acclaimed in the first of many installation ceremonies that will take him on a year's traveling in Africa, the Mideast and southern Asia...
...society made do last week by hoking up a heart flutter between Mrs. Alben Berkley, 45, widow of the onetime Vice President, and cue-bald Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, 75. Bachelor (since a brief 1927 marriage) Rayburn, who squired the lady to Senator Lyndon Johnson's 49th birthday party last week, was not talking, but Jane Barkley was: "For heaven's sake! I enjoy his company immensely, and that's that...