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...well in advance on New Jersey's Guy George Gabrielson as its candidate for national chairman. He was an Iowa boy who made good in the big city as a Wall Street lawyer and industrialist. "Even Paul Robeson couldn't find fault with Gabrielson," said a Negro committeeman from Mississippi. Trilled the committeewoman from Iowa: "I'm in love, I'm in love with a wonderful...
...paid for by the Giornale, Trasteverini thronged happily to the feast. The sponsors had discarded an original plan to crown as "Miss Vino" the Trastevere girl who could drink the most wine, thought it would be even more imprudent to hold a regular beauty contest. "The first," explained a committeeman, "would not be dignified in these times; the second would be too dangerous, because there are too many girls in Trastevere who are the most beautiful...
Stalking out of a meeting of the Republican National Committee last January, one disgruntled committeeman grated: "I'll give that guy just six months more." Last week, almost six months to the day, the committeeman saw his prophecy come true. In the interest of "harmony in our ranks," National Chairman Hugh D. Scott Jr. quit...
...meet expenses of $313,673A group of rebels from all party factions met in Pittsburgh early this month and demanded Scott's head. Now that they had it, they were not sure just whom they wanted in his place.* Among the likeliest candidates: New Jersey's National Committeeman Guy Gabrielson, Michigan's National Committeeman Arthur Summerfield, Nebraska's State Chairman A. T. ("Bert") Howard...
Last week the subject of Yemenite wives broke into a drowsy committee meeting of Tel Aviv's Knesset (Parliament). Up for study was a bill fixing legislative salaries. One committeeman questioned the $45 monthly allotted for The wife of each Knesset member. What about bounties for the extra wives of Moslem representatives...