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Incumbent Governor George Docking became the first Democrat ever to win re-election in Kanses, beating news-paper publisher Clyde Reed...
...Corner." But he was soon back again from the glowing legend to distasteful politics-a perfunctory huddle with Kansas' able Gubernatorial Candidate Clyde Reed Jr. ("I'm in his corner." said Ike. "Is that clear enough?"), who has high hopes of unseating wily Democratic Governor George Docking; a fast flight on to Denver, Mamie's home town, where the Eisenhowers' arrival got fouled up by a wretched little scene at the airport. There Ike was greeted and all but engulfed before the photographers by Colorado's Governor Stephen McNichols, another of the Eisenhower...
...Kansas Republicans cannot knock out Democratic Governor George Docking next month, this traditionally Republican prairie bastion may be in for a long Democratic siege. In Parsons Publisher Clyde Martin Reed Jr., 44, the G.O.P. has its best chance to do it. Reed bears an illustrious Republican name: his father was Kansas Governor (1929-31) and longtime (1939-49) U.S. Senator. Well-known and liked, Clyde Reed Jr. has already restored party morale by the rude primary pasting he handed ex-Governor Fred Hall last spring, the same Fred Hall who went down-rejected by major party leaders-in the primary...
Marquand has written this novel before, parts of it, at least, in Point of No Return. Even the town is the same-Clyde, Mass.-and the home-town kid who has made good is full of the knowledge that you can't go home again. But this time it is the boy who belonged to the town's upper crust and the girl who lived on the dreary lower-lower level. Tom had first seen Rhoda coming from a typing class, and after that there was really no other woman for him, except on the rebound...
Married. Sarah Vaughan, 34, supple-voiced Negro jazz singer; and Clyde Brooks Atkins, 30, owner of a fleet of taxicabs on Chicago's South Side, onetime football fullback; she for the second time, he for the first; in a City Hall ceremony, in Chicago. Witness: Trumpeter John Birks ("Dizzy") Gillespie. The bride wore a white trapeze dress and green shoes. The witness wore a brown-and-white cord suit, pink shirt, red-and-black tie, and, on his head, a diamond-patterned, black-and-white tarboosh...