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...great losers in the history of U.S. presidential elections, a title he won in 1936 by carrying only two states against F.D.R., Kansas' Alf London, 79, has a rueful understanding of the uncertainties of politics. So when CBS-TV's Eric Sevareid dropped in at his Topeka homestead to talk about the next race, Landon smiled, said simply that he is backing Michigan's Governor George Romney, and added: "Anybody who attempts to predict the election of 1968 is nuts...
...grand old man of plainspoken journalism, who in 56 years held every job on the Kansas City Star from reporter to president, a rumpled, cigar-chomping extrovert who made his paper "the hair shirt of the community," mixing enthusiastic local coverage with a passion for national politics, promoted Alf Landon in 1936, backed Dewey, Willkie, Ike and Nixon, but supported Lyndon Johnson in 1964, putting the Star on the side of a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in 80 years, then retired because of poor health and predicted, "I'll have the biggest damn funeral Kansas City...
...office for himself. In 1936, he ran for the California state assembly-the first of more than a dozen public offices he has sought and the first of seven he has won. He was swept into office on the strength of Franklin Roosevelt's landslide win over Republican Alf Landon. A few days after winning re-election in 1938, Sam met blonde, attractive Betty Hensel in a post office, married her within two weeks. (They have one son, William, 20, a U.C.L.A. student and lead guitarist in a shaggy-haired group called the Ryot.) The following year, after twelve...
Best Friend? These messy problems land squarely on the ample frame of the coal board's chairman, Baron Robens of Woldingham, who is variously known to Britons as "Lord Coal" and "honest" Alf." After serving on Manchester's city council and running a teddy-bear-manufacturing business, Lancashireman Robens won a seat in Parliament, at 40 became Clement Attlee's Minister of Labor. In 1961 a Conservative government asked him to take over the red-inked coal board, which had become a music-hall joke. Robens moved into the board's office behind Buckingham Palace, mounted...
...protective measures (a virtual ban on coal imports, a twopence-per-gallon tax on oil) have been to no avail. And, despite promises that they will get new jobs, the 120,000 miners who will be thrown out of work by the pit closures are no longer sure that Alf Robens is their best friend. Mine unions now call Robens "the self-worshiping Socialist...