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...most other state candidates sailing home on Ike's coattails. Last week the President hand-picked-and the National Committee elected-for Republican national chairman the man who is entitled to much of the credit for the Connecticut record: plain-talking, swift-striding H. (for Hugh) Meade Alcorn Jr.. 49, Connecticut national committeeman...
...Alcorn's selection caused some growling among right-wing Republicans ("The conservative wing," groused Michigan's stone-age Representative Clare Hoffman, "has been liquidated and is about to be buried"), but even these yowls seemed almost perfunctory. Serious, intense Meade Alcorn, who neither drinks nor smokes, has little of retiring Len Hall's ebullience, but he brings to the job a record for action. Born in Suffield, Conn., he attended Dartmouth, there broke the world's record for the 60-yd. low hurdles. (His 6.9-sec. mark has since been lowered to 6.8.) He graduated...
Elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1937, he became its speaker in 1941, took an unsuccessful whirl for lieutenant governor in 1948, and four years later was chairman of the Connecticut Citizens for Eisenhower. Last year Len Hall put National Committeeman Alcorn in charge of arrangements for the smooth-clicking national convention in San Francisco. As national chairman, Alcorn has two major problems: recovering the 1956 House and Senate losses in the Midwest and Far West and continuing to build the G.O.P. in the South...
Varsity 150's Stroke: Bob Foley; seven: Viggo Bertelsen; six: David Sutherland; five: Bill Alcorn; four: George Krumbhaar; three: Dick Timpson; two: Larry Coolidge; bow: Tom Sheffield; cox: Bill Powell...
Varsity--Tom Sheffield, bow; Larry Coolidge, two; Dick Timpson, three; George Krumbhaar, four; Bill Alcorn, five; Dave Sutherland, six; Viggo Bertelsen, seven; Bob Foley, stroke, John Powell...