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...hard drive up the mountainside. The day before, after a busy week in Washington, John Sherman Cooper had flown to Owensboro on the Ohio River for a busier day at the state VFW encampment. That night Republican Cooper and the Democrat who is running against him, grizzled old Alben Barkley, had spoken at a sweltering, shirtsleeve banquet (the 106-degree temperature, said a native, was not as hot as hell; it was as hot as hackydam -four miles below...
...Kentucky's Alben W. Barkley, 76, longtime Senator and former Vice President, who in recent months has left no stump unoccupied or baby unkissed, finally made it official. He will run for the Senate seat now held by able Republican John Sherman Cooper...
...Louisville. Kentucky's top Democrats met to pick their candidate against able Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper, decided to call upon an old and willing war horse: former Vice President Alben W. Barkley. Said Barkley: "I am not ready to give an answer . . . Whether I can be of service to the state and nation will be my sole consideration." Barkley is almost certain to decide his services are absolutely essential...
...Louisville last week, old (76) Alben Barkley stood up before a milkmen's meeting and pointed out that Winston Churchill is now 79, that Cato studied Greek at 82 and that Oliver Wendell Holmes resigned from the U.S. Supreme Court at 91. Burbled Barkley: "I feel like a kid." In Illinois, U.S. Senator Paul Douglas was roaming the countryside being folksy with farmers, militant with miners, professorial with college groups and hearty with luncheon clubs. All across the U.S., the politicians, like bees in a hive warmed by the spring sun, were beginning to stir and buzz. The reason...
...Alben W. Barkley...