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...colonel), divorced his wife Bobo when five years of separation and litigation ended in a whopping $5,500,000 settlement, one of the largest on record. Now, following older brother Nelson's lead, Winthrop is jumping into GOPolitics, but with a characteristic twist. As newly elected Republican National Committeeman and party leader of Arkansas, where he has headed the Industrial Development Commission since 1955, he confidently expects to turn a stubbornly Democratic state into two-party territory...
...Roosevelt and Truman Administrations, fought the integration battles of Little Rock and Northern Virginia as a lawyer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and built up a prosperous Washington private law practice. He is the first Negro to hold the job of Democratic National Committeeman from the District of Columbia, and during the campaign was a key Kennedy adviser in a highly successful drive for Negro votes...
Died. Perry Wilbon Howard, 83, crafty Negro politician and longtime Republican National Committeeman from Mississippi, who was the absentee ruler of the long-dormant state organization for more than 30 years while he ran a law firm in Washington, D.C.. and whose "Black and Tan" faction was ousted last year when a "Lily White" Republican delegation was seated at the Republican National Convention; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...York's Carmine De Sapio wears a velvet glove over his hard fist: his public utterances are usually soothing; he rarely shows irritation or displeasure. But last week De Sapio, sore beset by the so-called reform insurgents, who seek to unseat him as New York Democratic national committeeman and leader of Tammany Hall, struck out at his tormentors. In this year's New York City mayoralty campaign, De Sapio promised, his regular Democrats will "oppose and oust these self-styled leaders who seek to rule or ruin the party . . . It is time that we strip these masqueraders...
Died. Walter F. Brown, 91, lawyer and longtime Republican National Committeeman from Ohio who stumped the state for McKinley in 1891, reached the peak of his political influence as Herbert Hoover's Postmaster General; in Toledo...