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...They" are the city and county political machine, an entrenched and well-oiled apparatus whose power Wirges first realized four years ago after arriving in Morrilton to take over the paper he had just bought. Wirges paid a visit to the Conway County Courthouse, where an aged citizen introduced him to one of the ineluctable facts of local political life. "Son," said Wirges' informant, "we don't have elections in this here county. We have selections. If you don't get selected, you don't get elected...
Wirges also discovered who ran the county machine: Marlin Hawkins, 47, a paunchy, cigar-chomping native son, who is a per sonal friend of Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus and has been Conway County sheriff since 1950. Another Wirges discovery: after every county election, special election deputies, appointed by Hawkins, carried the ballot boxes to the courthouse (a common practice in Arkansas...
...North Conway, N.H., Eastern Slope Playhouse: Colette's Gigi...
...bring themselves "to regret the departure of Assistant Director Stephen Aaron '57" and the theatre at Harvard will be considerably poorer for the loss of a man of Mr. Aaron's acumen and enthusiasm. William Alfred John M. Bullitt Dean Gitter Cedric H. Whitman John Ratte Elliott Perkine John Conway Daniel Seltzer Robert Chapman Walter J. Kaiser...
...These young men are the finest, the best trained, the ablest on their feet, that it has been our pleasure to listen to," declared Justice Whittaker, after hearing Charles C. Collins, Jr. and Thomas A. Skornia. Their opponents in the Magruder Club were Thomas G. Conway and John M. Wisdom...