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...that Byrd had been allowed to stay on as chairman even in the Republican-controlled 80th Congress. Half a dozen others rose to add their voices in praise of Byrd: Minority Leader Kenneth Wherry (". . . a great chairman ... a great work . . ."); Tennessee's ancient, irascible Kenneth Mc-Kellar; South Dakota's Republican Karl Mundt, who couldn't think of anyone in public life who "has contributed more to the general welfare"; even such an evenhanded Republican moderate as New Hampshire's Charles Tobey...
...guest editorial explaining what the school system was trying to do. But next day, three more mothers stormed before the school board. "My sixth-grade daughter doesn't know a complete sentence," said one. "She doesn't know states. She doesn't know that North Dakota is one of the states." At the next meeting, it was a father who rose up in wrath: "What I want to know is when my boy is going to get an education? He's a musician, but he doesn't know a noun...
...Maharaja of Baroda, 41, was short of cash. Up for sale went his plane: a silver-painted, twin-engined Dakota with a day cabin, night cabin, cocktail bar and cream-colored kitchen. The Maharaja's friends said that he had been watching his budget ever since his 8,164-square-mile state pensioned him at $532,000 a year eight months ago when it joined Bombay. There were also "For Sale" signs on all three of his houses in England...
Except for Idaho and South Dakota, every state in the Union had been represented in the contest. More than a quarter of the entrants were housewives; the rest ranged from surgeons to engravers and from butlers to prison guards. One of them, an actor, reported that he had taken up painting simply "to see how it's done." That would be a good reason for art critics to paint; unfortunately, no critics had entered the contest...
Soon Joe Foss, who had left the Marines to become a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard, was flying all over the state acting as master of ceremonies for South Dakota's Miss America contest, dedicating baseball fields and leading airmen in a fancy repertoire of acrobatics. To questions about the future he bluntly replied: "I don't know myself what I'm going to do in 1950, but take a look at those in office...