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...Hoegh's move-fast, high-tax program (TIME, Oct. 22), and elected Democrat Herschel Loveless. In West Virginia, corruption charges against the outgoing Democratic state administration resulted in the election of Republican Old Guardsman Chapman Revercomb to the U.S. Senate and of Republican Cecil Underwood, a party comer at 34, as governor (Democratic House Incumbent M. G. Burnside lost to Republican Will Neal partly because the Democratic administration messed up a garbage-hauling contract). In the Great Plains, farm unrest caused the defeat of Republican House incumbents in South Dakota and Montana...
...Comer. Editor Hetherington last week ordered an extra telephone for his desk, making a total of three, but that was the only change in sight under the new regime. The son of Sir Hector Hetherington, principal of Glasgow University, he took honors in English at Oxford, went straight into the tank corps in World War II. His first newspaper job was on the British military staff putting out Hamburg's Die Welt. After the war Hetherington worked on the Glasgow Herald, spent five months at Princeton as a Commonwealth Fellow in 1952. When he switched to the Guardian...
Pegged as a comer, Ike was yanked away to serve as chief of staff to General Walter Krueger's Third Army in the big Louisiana Maneuvers in the fall of 1941. There he handled the movements of 270,000 men so brilliantly that the rival Second Army was "annihilated" (except George Patton, who turned up with a force of Second Army tanks in Eisenhower's rear). This stunning victory opened the eyes of Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall, and soon Ike began moving surefootedly upward through the stars of generalship. Right after Pearl Harbor, Marshall made...
...captain of the '57 team, Bill Morris, is running in the sixth position, while last year's freshman captain, Dyke Benjamin, is listed at seven. Junior French Anderson and seniors John Read, a new-comer, and Jim Cairns, stellar half-miler on the track team, round out the first...
...free-spending Orville Enoch Hodge, 51, state auditor since 1952 and a comer in Illinois Republican politics, erasure had begun a fortnight before. It began when the Chicago Daily News broke the story of high-echelon finagling in the auditor's office (TIME, July 23). Reported the News, and other papers that gleefully waded in: 1) more than $500,000 in warrants (state checks) was missing from the auditor's office, and 2) more than $200,000 in suspicious state checks-some of them made out to men who denied ever having seen them-had been cashed...