Word: brewster
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...hopes for a rising tide of modern Republicanism came a dash of bad tidings last week from a Down East stalwart. The tidebreaker: Frederick George Payne, 56, former (1949-53) Maine governor and 1952 Ike-backer who edged out Taftman Owen Brewster in the 1952 primaries and is now Maine's junior Senator. The tidings: hardworking, quietly effective Frederick Payne will not seek re-election in 1958. Among the reasons for the change in Payne: his health (he has a chronic but not disabling heart disorder), his family (Mrs. Payne doesn't like Washington), his pocketbook...
Whatever the reasons, the effect of the announcement was to throw the 1958 Maine G.O.P. senatorial race wide open. Old Guard Owen Brewster, 67. who has been angling unsuccessfully for a federal job since 1952, was a possibility-an idea that brought shudders to liberal Republicans. Other possibilities: ex-Governor Horace A. Hildreth, 53, now U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan; University of Maine President Arthur Hauck, 63, a staunch Eisenhower supporter; and Congressman Clifford Mclntire, the only Republican Representative from Maine to be re-elected by a comfortable margin this year (one was defeated, one squeaked through). Whoever gets the nomination...
...Crimson freshman team will be a heavy underdog when it plays an undefeated Dartmouth squad today. Harvard has a 1-1 record against Exeter and Nichols Jr. College, while the Green has defeated both Exeter and Brewster...
Russell H. Peck '43, assistant dean of the Law School, and Kingman Brewster, Jr., professor of Law, will discuss "What to Expect in Law School" and "Breaking the Firm Barrier" at the first meeting of the society, which was organized last week...
...Benjamin) Brewster Jennings, 57, was elected Socony Mobil Oil Co. chairman, succeeding George V. Holton, 65, who retired. The grandson of John D. Rockefeller partners, Jennings started as a clerk for the old Standard Oil Co. of New York in 1920, worked up to Socony's presidency in 24 years. While remaining as the company's chief executive officer, he was succeeded as president by Albert L. Nickerson, 44, who joined the company as a service-station attendant after graduating from Harvard in 1933, has directed its far-flung foreign trade as a vice president since...