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...characteristically too high, guessed that he would win by no more than 70,000. When the votes were counted, it turned out that even Happy's happy estimate had been too cautious. He ran up a total of 457,185 votes to beat Republican Candidate Edwin R. Denney by 131,353; the biggest majority a candidate for governor ever piled up in Kentucky...
...election, Happy's Republican opponent, Judge Edwin R. Denney, 51, can hardly hope to match Chandler for winsomeness. A solid (6 ft. 2 in., 225 lbs.), solemn, soft-spoken mountaineer, he plans a campaign that will "stress honesty, frugality, economy and integrity in government." But with the Democrats loyally closing ranks, and Chandler's pretested corn-and-comedy act on the road again, G.O.P. hopes look dim indeed...
...Lonely Crowd (373 pp.)-with Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer-Yale ($4). Others: Faces in the Crowd (741 pp.)-Yale ($5); Thorstein Veblen (209 pp.)-Scribner ($2.75); The Lonely Crowd (349 pp.)-Doubleday (95?); Individualism Reconsidered (507 pp.) -Free Press...
Although scheduled first on the program, Reuel Denney's September Lemonade was given last, and it should stay in that position, for it is one of the funniest pieces to be seen around here in a long time. With deftly worded satiric verse, Denney takes pseudo-intellectualism, in the form of an art-struck girl and her ineffectual beau, and ridicules them by contrast with a gauche, loud sister and her equally flamboyant lover...
...Denney's satire is a fitting comment on all of the "Four Plays for a Plain Stage." Deliberate obscurity and a false esoterica make the first two seem dull and meaningless. On the other hand, Three Words in No Time and September Lemonade show how well the one-act form can be used...