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...Maine's senatorial primary last week, Senator Owen Brewster, after 18 years in Congress, was unexpectedly defeated for the G.O.P. nomination by a vote of 68,534 to 65,420. The victor: Governor Frederick George Payne, 51, onetime theater manager who began his political career in 1935 as mayor of Augusta...
...outcome was partly the result of Owen Brewster's tie-up with influence-peddling Henry Grunewald (see PRESS), partly a reflection of the views of Maine Republicans on the presidential race; Payne is pro-Ike, Brewster pro-Taft. Ike headquarters jubilantly claimed that all candidates for state office who hitched their wagons to the Taft star have been wrecked in primaries...
...attacker: Washington Lawyer Charles Patrick Clark, $75,000-a-year lobbyist for Franco's Spain, who has been one of Pearson's prime targets in the past few months. In detailed columns, Pearson charged Clark with using undue influence to get Maine's Senator Owen Brewster and Brooklyn's Congressman Eugene Keogh to sponsor aid to Franco. There seemed little doubt that these and other Pearson columns had contributed to Brewster's election defeat (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...want to talk to you.' I stopped . . . and he whammed me a helluva jolt on the neck." After that, according to Pearson, he was too busy "reeling around" to see Clark's blows, but recalls that Clark was "yelling . . . 'Take that for Brewster, take that for Keogh.' " Not so, said Clark: "I hit him in the eye with my left, swung with my right, missed . . . and yelled at him, 'This is for Forrestal and Brewster and Vaughan and Keogh and myself, you son of a bitch...
...Eisenhower won a clear-cut victory. The count: nine delegates for Ike, five for Taft, and two "neutrals" who lean toward Ike. All the Taft delegates came from the Third Congressional District (northern and northeastern Maine), Senator Owen Brewster's homeland...