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...Times is nonetheless no poor Confederate-grey copy of its imposing relative. The two stand together on most major issues, e.g., presidential candidates (Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956). But on occasion the Daily Times has tartly differed with the colossus of the North. When Daily Times Washington Correspondent Charles Bartlett, a Pulitzer prizewinner, blasted the Eisenhower Administration for leaking major stories to favored papers, the Times was high on his list...
Mike Stepovich, happy as a sourdough with a new-found nugget, turned to leave, stopped to sign autographs for well-wishers, then stepped outside to pose for pictures and some hugs-and-backslap horseplay with Alaska's Democratic Delegate E. L. ("Bob") Bartlett and with two engineers of the House victory: New York's Democrat Leo O'Brien and Pennsylvania's Republican John Saylor. It was Floor Manager O'Brien, counseled at every turn by Speaker Sam Rayburn, who had beaten back strong-willed opposition from Virginia's Democratic Howard Smith, chairman...
Yahoos & Tears. For years, the statehood theme had whisked like a williwaw across the territory, sweeping up the visionaries, tossing the stubborn into stormy waves of opposition. In Washington, Alaska's longtime (first elected in 1944) delegate to Congress, onetime Gold Miner Bob Bartlett, spent his days and nights trying to carve out a 49th star on an unrelenting congressional conscience. Another missionary was a former newsman and editor of the Nation, Dr. Ernest Gruening (TIME, June 16, 1947), appointed Governor of Alaska by Franklin Roosevelt in 1939. A diehard conservationist, crusty Ernest Gruening soon realized that Alaska...
...suffers from a Julius Caeser about as imperial as a bourgeois Huey Long sans pitch-fork and red neck. From a Marlon Brando rendition of Mark Antony which turns him into a thick-skulled gladiator with Actor's Studio eyebrows who reads his lines like Bartlett quotations...
Bill Schellstede also was outstanding, as he won the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:39.4. He swam in the 400-yard medley, along with Hunter, Tony Hoag and Thomas Bartlett. Swimmers in the winning freestyle combination included Fred Cooley, Win Huppuch, David Ottaway and Hunter...