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...Washington's social circuit, Mac-Arthur and his witty wife, Laura, daughter of the late Alben Barkley, are much in demand. Laura MacArthur leans naturally toward the Democratic Party; her husband diplomatically describes himself as an independent. MacArthur keeps a motorboat on the Potomac, hopes that when he, Laura, and daughter, Mimi, 19, are settled in Tokyo he will be able to follow a favorite pastime: skindiving...
...Kentucky, the G.O.P. picked up one of the two Senate seats at stake this fall when John Sherman Cooper, 55, former Ambassador to India, defeated former Governor Lawrence W. Wetherby handily in their battle for the remainder of Alben Barkley's term. In the second race, where the traditional Democratic edge also had been whittled by campaign-year squabbles within the party's ranks, ex-Governor Earle C. Clements hung to an uncomfortably narrow lead over Republican Thruston B. Morton...
Cooper's opponent for the Barkley seat is Lawrence Wetherby, also a former Kentucky governor (1950-55). But Wetherby is a lackadaisical campaigner who is also being dogged by his own governor, fellow Democrat and worst enemy, Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler. Since last June, when he defeated the Clements-Wetherby machine in a bitter fight over control of the state party, Happy has been as determined as ever to wreck Wetherby's cause. Although Happycrat Chandler now denies that he is ready to sling a monkey wrench at his own party, his monkeyshines prove otherwise...
...with Dwight Eisenhower when the President flew down to Lexington last week looked more like State Department types than Kentucky politicians. Actually they are both: former U.S. Ambassador to India John Sherman Cooper, dignified and urbane, is running for the four-year unexpired Senate term of the late Alben Barkley; Thruston (pronounced throo-ston) B. Morton, clean-cut and sharp, was John Foster Dulles' assistant for congressional relations before he decided to oppose Democratic Incumbent Earle Clements for Kentucky's second seat...
...Year IV of Dwight Eisenhower, Democrats find cause for hope in the Harry Truman who stood before them at 2 o'clock on the stifling Philadelphia morning of July 15, 1948, and told them how to win an election they were ready to concede to Tom Dewey. Senator Barkley and I will win this election and make those Republicans like it," cried Truman. "Don't you forget that! We will do that because they are wrong and we are right." That is the Truman the Democratic Party hopes to see next week. It is the Truman who represents...