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...announcement was a warning to others-especially Vice President Richard Nixon-who might covet the delegation for themselves and try to capture it at next June's primary. This week Knight underscored the warning with another announcement of considerable significance: "I have asked Clem Whitaker and Leone Baxter to serve as our campaign directors...
Whitaker & Baxter, political pressagents, are a lanky, gentle-looking white-haired man and an uncommonly pretty redhead. In nearly 25 years, the firm of Whitaker & Baxter has managed 75 political campaigns (all but two confined to California) and has lost only five. Their biggest foray onto the national political landscape was management of the American Medical Association's successful campaign against Harry Truman's compulsory-health-insurance plan...
...project might become a threat to private power, and initiated a referendum to defeat it. In some alarm, State Senator Jack McColl and other Central Valley advocates called a strategy meeting and asked Whitaker, a rising young pressagent, to sit in. Also at the meeting was Leone Smith Baxter, 26, a recent widow who was also something of an expert in publicity as well as a prime mover in the C.V.P...
Died. John Hodiak (real name: John Pagorzelliec), 41, actor of stage (The Caine Mutiny Court Martial) and screen (Trial, Battleground), and onetime husband of Cinemactress Anne Baxter; of a coronary thrombosis while shaving in his parents' home as he prepared to leave for 20th Century-Fox studios to complete work on his 32nd movie, Threshold of Space, the story of Space Surgeon John Paul Stapp, whom he was playing; in Tarzana, Calif...
...newcomer in the story, however, is anything but childlike. Anne Baxter portrays her as a conniving liar who bides behind an assumed front of innocence. Miss Baxter manages to make the sudden transitions in characterization appear smooth and effortless. George Sanders, though, won the only Oscar for acting in All About Eve. His is the supporting role of a cynical critic, a suave and predatory animal which feeds off the talents of others...