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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Second District, Republican Errett Scrivner, best remembered for his demand for the return of the suit with two pairs of pants during World War II, has held forth for 15 years. Scrivner should win against Lawyer Newell George-but Kansas is holding a right-to-work referendum and labor is working furiously in industrial Kansas City, which lies in Scrivner's district. Similarly, in the First District, Republican Incumbent William Avery should win against Topeka Lawyer Robert Domme but is plagued by a migration away from the farm towns to Topeka, where labor's C.O.P.E. is battling right...
While Nelson Rockefeller paraded his best vote-luring grins on the hustings far north, brother Winthrop, the Arkansas cow baron, slouched into Dallas for the Texas State Fair, broadcast the joys of life as a simple farmer. "I never," he drawled, "want to go back to the city." Winnie, amiably noncommittal about his brother's try for New York Governor ("Most of my Democratic friends think Nelson has a real chance"), slyly dashed, for the time being, any stray ideas that he too might have political hankerings: "The state constitution requires that a man be a resident of Arkansas...
Gregory Peter XV Cardinal Agagianian, 63, Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians, an Oriental rite communion of the Roman Catholic Church with headquarters near Beirut. Generally considered one of the best brains in the church, Agagianian was appointed by Pope Pius XII to succeed the late Cardinal Stritch as chief of all Catholic missions, is the church's top expert on the Mideast and Communism. His Russian-Armenian origin, which militates against his choice, in another respect weighs in his favor: his election would greatly impress Russians and other Eastern peoples...
...build prestige, the papers spend lavishly on such extracurricular flings as importing the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals, financing deep-sea bathysphere explorations. To save their employees' face, publishers give out biannual bonuses amounting to some 40% of salaries, automatically move their best reporters into administrative jobs at around 35. Not only do the overstaffed papers hardly ever fire anyone, but, as a sort of national face-saving gesture, they yearly hire unnecessary help from Japan's crop of new college graduates...
...yawl from his friend and benefactor, William S. Hart, oldtime cowboy star of the silent movies. With his second wife, he cruised Long Island Sound for the next eleven years. Wind, water and sand became the essence of some of Dove's best work. Ferry Boat Wreck-Oyster Bay (1931) catches the essence of a lurking hulk beneath the sound's green water and the fiery color of rusting iron; Fog Horns (1929) is an abstraction of sound any sailor becalmed in a fog would recognize...