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During Christmas vacation of his sophomore year, Paul visited an aunt and uncle in Burnet, Tex. One evening he got back from church to discover that his two-year-old cousin had crawled so close to an open fireplace that his clothes had caught on fire. He nursed the little boy for 62 sleepless hours, but the child died. "It was the first time I had seen anyone die," Stapp recalls. "I decided right then that I wanted to be a doctor...
...Stanley Burnet Resor, 75, white-haired dean of 20th century advertising, moved from president to board chairman of J. Walter Thompson Co., the world's biggest ad agency (current billings: some $200 million). He will continue as chief executive officer. Into the presidency went Norman H. Strouse, 48, who left a Seattle Post-Intelligencer advertising job to join J.W.T. in 1929. As one of the firm's 95 vice presidents, Strouse in recent years has been in charge of the agency's Detroit office...
Until last week no write-in candidate had ever been elected to the U.S. Congress. Last week's write-in winner: J. (for James) Strom Thurmond, 51, whom South Carolina sent to the Senate seat of the late Burnet R. Maybank...
After the death of Senator Burnet Maybank (TIME, Sept. 13), Brown, a state senator who controls the state Democratic executive committee, talked the committee into nominating him as a replacement. Conservative Democrats and almost all the state's daily newspapers wanted a primary. Infuriated by the coup, they united behind J. Strom Thurmond, a former governor and Dixiecrat presidential candidate in 1948, as a write-in candidate. A write-in campaign has powerful obstacles to overcome, but loquacious Harry Vaughan certainly helped...
...Died. Burnet Rhett Maybank, 55, genial, aristocratic onetime (1939-41) governor of South Carolina, longtime (1941-54) U.S. Senator; of a heart ailment; in Flat Rock, N.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...