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Just Reasonable. Rhodes, meanwhile, was gaining a reputation as a political independent who might attract many Democrats. Elected mayor of Columbus in 1943. he proved a sound administrator through nine years in the office. He moved up to state auditor in 1953, was soundly whipped by Democrat Frank Lausche when he ran for Governor in 1954, was reelected to his third term as auditor by a remarkable 700,000 votes in 1960. While Rhodes remained aloof from the state G.O.P. organization, he nursed his personal public relations, turned a room next to his private office into a statehouse reporters...
...certain that they can take a single Governor's chair away from a Republican. They all but concede that the G.O.P.'s Fred Seaton will beat Incumbent Democrat Frank Morrison in Nebraska. They admit that Ohio Democrat Mike Di Salle is an underdog against Republican State Auditor James Rhodes. In Wisconsin they have little hope that Democratic Attorney General John Reynolds will defeat any of three Republicans fighting to succeed Nelson. And they view Michigan's Democratic Governor John Swainson as no better than even money against Republican George Romney...
...powerful executive vice presidency for operations−a post once held by Cordiner and by former G.E. President Robert Paxton−moved Brooklyn-born Fred J. Borch, 52, who has been vice president of the G.E. consumer products group. Borch, who started with G.E. as a traveling auditor, will take from Cordiner full responsibility for directing manufacturing and marketing by all five G.E. operating groups. More important, the promotion marks him as a prime candidate to move−some day−into the tandem leadership of G.E. with President Gerald J. Phillippe, 52, who now heads all G.E. services, such...
...primary) has a fighting chance to beat Di Salle in November. Rhodes is a versatile man who served two terms as president of the Amateur Athletic Union and coauthored three books of U.S. history. He is a tireless joiner and a proven vote getter who, in winning reelection as auditor in 1960, gathered the largest number of votes ever given any candidate for an Ohio state office...
After the Chicago Daily News won the public service award in 1957 by exposing the peccadilloes of Illinois State Auditor Orville Hodge, three Chicago newspapers took credit: the News for winning, the competing Sun-Times for suggesting the News as a Pulitzer contestant-and the Chicago Tribune for staying out of the contest yet another year. (The Trib has never entered it.) In 1954 the Advisory Board, tipped by a friendly publisher, suggested to a New England daily that its coverage of a recent storm merited entry...