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Walter Reutker, 48, vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., president of its United Auto Workers, another 1952 Stevenson backer. Reuther has taken no official stand this year, is presumed still to like Adlai. But his anti-moderate attitude on civil rights sounds more and more like Harriman. Says Reuther: "Citizen Walter Reuther will not support the Democratic Party nationally if that party attempts to be all things to all men on civil rights...
...networks are becoming the new money-heavy angels of the Broadway stage. CBS, sole backer of the smash-hit musical My Fair Lady, expects to net an additional $5,000,000 from the recorded music of the show, now on the market under the Columbia label. NBC, which has done well from its investment in Call Me Madam, Me and Juliet, Fanny and the current Alfred Lunt-Lynn Fontanne hit, The Great Sebastians, will put up the money for a new musical, Jack and the Beanstalk, written by Helen Deutsch and Jerry Livingston. NBC also promised one novelty: before...
...half of the Democratic precincts counted, McCormack polled 18,902 write-in votes over Stevenson's 11,416. Other contenders for Democratic write-ins are Estes Kefauver, who had announced his support for McCormack, with 2505; President Eisenhower with 1441; and Senator John F. Kennedy '40, a Stevenson backer, with 609 votes...
Since the bill had passed the house with an 83-34 majority and the senate by a convincing 22-4 vote, it was expected at first that Governor McKeldin would sign it. But last week Republican McKeldin, a backer of President Eisenhower's freetrade policies, ordered new hearings on bill 38. He has until April 6 to decide...
Said Vatan's Editor Ahmet Emin Yalman, Menderes' powerful press backer in two elections: "Laicism is one of the principal cornerstones of modern Turkey. To make concessions on this subject for political reasons is an action not befitting a head of government." Istanbul's Cumhuriyet, another past supporter of Menderes, denounced any plan to "touch the foundation pillar of the Ataturk era." The opposition Republicans and the new Freedom Party blasted Menderes' pronouncement as "unconstitutional" and conceived in failure. Though only last month the government had shut up two newspapers for saying less. Menderes made...