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...these days Kentuckians have reason to hope that a new day has dawned. The reason: a remarkable performance during his first months in office by Governor Bert Thomas Combs...
Making a Point. Bert Combs, a country lawyer from Prestonsburg (pop. 3,585) with a way-down-yonder drawl, was elected last year over a handpicked Chandler candidate. A shy, retiring sort of man, he seemed likely to be overshadowed by 1) powerful former U.S. Senator Earle C. Clements, who had backed Combs against the rival Chandler faction, and 2) smart, persuasive Lieutenant Governor Wilson Wyatt, onetime (1941-45) mayor of Louisville and U.S. housing expediter in 1946 under Truman. But from the beginning, Combs worked smoothly with Wyatt, and he quickly let Clements know who was boss...
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Guests: Anne Bancroft, Bert Lahr, Kay Starr. Color...
...hour dinner break with Leahy leading acting commissioner Austin H. Gunsel 8-3. One vote was cast for Paul Schissler, special events director of the Los Angeles Times. It takes nine votes to elect a $50,000-a-year successor to the late Bert Bell as NFL head...
Johnson's first stop was Morganfield, Ky., for a luncheon huddle with Governor Bert Combs and ex-U.S. Senator Earle Clements. A probable conversational topic: Clements' appointment as Kentucky's commissioner of highways-a strategic spot where Kingmaker Clements can control the Kentucky delegation to next July's Democratic Convention. With the happy assurance that Kentucky's 31 delegate votes are as good as in his pocket, Johnson flew on to the Midwest in his rented red-and-white Beechcraft...