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...their key race for the U.S. Senate, Ohio's Democratic Governor Frank Lausche had blocked all the plunging attempts of Republican Incumbent George Bender to corner him for face-to-face de bate (TIME, Oct. 8). But last week Lausche arrived to make a "nonpolitical" speech to a group of Negro businessmen in Columbus-only to discover that George Bender was already on hand with the political question that had been puzzling Ohioans for months...
Actually, the notion that either George Bender or Frank Lausche is just now getting around to campaigning should have Ohioans in stitches. In the last two years
...Bender has visited every one of Ohio's 23 congressional districts at least six times, taken off from his campaign to sleep in his Chagrin Falls home only 25 nights. And in his five terms as governor, Frank J. Lausche has never once let up in his campaign to promote the political career of Frank J. Lausche...
Banks, Barbershops, Etc. Burly, thunder-voiced George Bender, 60, is perfectly frank about the length and breadth of his campaign. "I never started," he says, "and I never stop. Since his 1954 election to complete the unexpired term of his idol, Robert A. Taft, Bender has worked hard to live down his reputation as the bell ringing buffoon at the 1952 Republican National Convention. He has built up a record as a solid pro-Eisenhower Senator, and few Republicans have a better right to call upon Ike for help. Most observers agree that although he has cut deeply into...
...prove his point, Bender was on the road last week as he had been for months before. One day started at 8:30 a.m., took Bender through seven counties, meeting with local Republican leaders, answering questions at high-school assemblies, bouncing into stores, banks, barbershops and courthouses to invite the occupants out to hear him speak on street corners. At every country store with a few cars parked outside, he stopped, entered, shook hands all around, and said: "I'm U.S. Senator Bender. I happen to be touring in your neighborhood and stopped by to say hello...