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Pennsylvania's James ("Big Red") Duff has not been very happy in the U.S. Senate. A man of action, he fidgets through monotonous debates and sees little point in questioning streams of witnesses before Senate committees. All last year he kept his keen political ear to the ground, listening for his chance to run for governor of Pennsylvania, a post he held with distinction from...
...final, desperate Crimson rally only resulted in one last penalty, this one to Almy for checking in the center some, and spectators on both sides started filling out Most people undoubtedly thought the cheer that went up at 19:59.5 marked the end of the game. Actually it was Duff's second and last goal...
Died. Alfred Duff Cooper, Viscount Norwich, 63, British statesman-author; of a heart attack; aboard the French cruise ship Colombie, off Vigo, Spain. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he won the D.S.O. in World War I as an officer of the Grenadier Guards, came home to marry Britain's reigning beauty, Lady Diana Manners, over the objections of her father, the Duke of Rutland. Entering Parliament in 1924, Duff Cooper turned out a brace of authoritative biographies (Talleyrand, Haig), became Secretary for War under Conservative Stanley Baldwin (1935-37), was assailed as a "disgraceful scaremonger" for urging rearmament against...
Many a Pennsylvania Republican thinks that the problem can be solved only by intervention from Washington, i.e., by Dwight Eisenhower and G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall. The President, who is closer to Duff than to any other Keystone Republican, was cautiously neutral last week. He saw none of the party bigwigs in private. Before many months pass, Eisenhower and Hall may have to act. If the Pennsylvania Republicans continue to fight with themselves, they may well lose: i) the governorship, 2) control of the 30-member delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives, and 3) the presidential electoral votes...
...subcommittee (South Dakota Republican Francis Case, Pennsylvania Republican James H. Duff and Mississippi Democrat John C. Stennis) found that, as usual, there is some confusion and waste in the U.S. effort overseas, e.g., "about $5,000,000 was expended on a field in Egypt, the use of which is now denied the United States." But many past errors have been corrected and "by and large a good construction job is being done." Said the report: "The progress of restoring a balance in world power has been much greater than is generally recognized. One simply cannot see ... the bases that...