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Tying flies for a Colorado fishing expedition, Topeka Oilman Alf M. London, 68, disclosed that he will be "far from the madding crowd" when the Republicans convene late this month. Furthermore, the 1936 G.O.P. standard-bearer will not even follow the convention antics of his fellow Republicans on TV: "It's going to be too cut and dried...
Political Career: At 18, in 1928, headed the Kansas State College Republican organization for Herbert Hoover, rose through the Young Republican organization to become state chairman, later campaign secretary for Kansas' Republican Presidential Nominee Alf Landon. Moved from Kansas to Nebraska in 1937 to take over the Hastings Tribune (and subsequently to control, with his brother Richard, seven other dailies and two weeklies in Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota and Wyoming and the semimonthly Western Farm Life magazine in Denver, plus three radio stations in Nebraska and Kansas). Elected to Nebraska's Unicameral Legislature for two terms...
Perles was working for the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune when the conjunction took place. With all the avuncular patronage of Dr. Johnson being kind for once to Boswell, Miller says kind things of the first meeting with "my good friend Alf." But like Boswell's initial confrontation with Johnson, it was not a success. "There was no click," Perles confesses sadly. Yet, "was I already under the spell of that personality which was later to manifest itself in his epoch-making books?" Two years later the question was answered. He was-even though Miller "talked through...
...like the Post either."* The Post has, indeed, taken its rapier (and at times its club) to anyone at the seat of Government. It approved of much in Harry Truman's Fair Deal, but it was unrelenting in its criticism of the corruption in his Administration. It praised Alf M. Landon and Wendell Willkie highly, but withheld formal support from any presidential candidate until Graham broke that precedent in 1952 by endorsing Eisenhower...
...Another famed Democratic cartoonist the St. Louis Pest-Dispatch's Daniel Fitzpatrick refused to draw political cartoons in the 1936 campaign after his paper came out for Alf Landon...