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JAMES NOLAND, 28, is a small but energetic World War II veteran of Bloomington, Ind. He rallied coal miners and other labor support against five-termer Gerald Landis, who voted for the Taft-Hartley law and who was in line, if elected, to become chairman of the Labor Committee. The Democratic gain in Indiana: five seats...
Died. Ross Lockridge Jr., 33, author of the ambitious, partly successful, best-selling attempt at a Great American Novel, Raintree County; by his own hand (carbon monoxide poisoning); in Bloomington, Ind. Exhausted after seven years' work on the studied, strained, lengthy (1,066 pages) first novel that had finally brought him financial (MGM's $125,000 prize), critical and popular success, Lockridge seemed, at the time of his suicide, to be successfully weathering a nervous breakdown...
Illinois' machine-hardened Democrats quivered with trepidation last week when their gentlemanly candidate for governor, Lawyer-Diplomat Adlai E. Stevenson (TIME, Jan. 12), trundled off to Bloomington to open his primary campaign. They needn't have been so nervous...
Stevenson, a novice at campaigning, was completely at ease in Bloomington, where he spent his boyhood and where his family has long published the Daily Pantagraph. At a reception in the high-ceilinged Stevenson homestead on elm-lined East Washington Street, he bore up like a veteran through two dinning hours of handshaking, reminiscing with boyhood friends and chinning with local politicos (including many a curious Republican...