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When the retiring Vice President of the U.S. packed up and headed for his old Kentucky home last January, it seemed that his distinguished political career was over. But last week the political sun shone bright on Kentucky's old (75) Alben Barkley...
Last spring, as the sassafras shoots came out, so did rumors that Barkley might run for governor or Senator. He could have stopped the talk with a sentence or two, but he did not. By last week the buzzing had spread all over Kentucky and could be heard in Washington. Tending his 500 acres of land and his 200 head of cattle at Paducah. Barkley had "no comment whatsoever" about a political future. But he has been busy making speeches wherever he can (e.g., to the Kentucky Chiropractors Association in observance of "National Correct Posture Week") and has been shaking...
...lawyer, loyal Democrat and self-styled "political manager." Now a grizzled, paunchy 59, Mayock began politicking as a 14-year-old Democratic precinct worker in his native California, rose to be counsel to the treasurer of the national committee in 1944-46, organizer and treasurer of the national Truman-Barkley Club in 1948. Often called "Judge Mayock," he explains that the title is a "phony," conferred by friends who wanted to "adorn a person of no importance...
...last week Schacter's idea had mushroomed into the most high-pressured culture drive Kentucky had ever seen. Alben Barkley was in on it, and so were Happy Chandler, Senators Earle Clements and John Sherman Cooper, Novelists A. B. Guthrie and Robert Penn Warren. Chairmaned by Mrs. Barry Bingham, the energetic wife of the editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, the campaign was out to put Parnassus on wheels, get no bookmobiles circulating through the state. This week, in Nelson County, the first one was about to go into operation...
...Walter D. Fuller and Jack R. Howard, Comedian Danny Kaye, RCA's Chairman David Sarnoff (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), 20th Century-Fox's President Spyros P. Skouras. Also present at the ceremonies, sponsored in Manhattan during Brotherhood Week by the National Conference of Christians and Jews: Alben W. Barkley and wife Jane...