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...little New Hampshire, Publisher William Loeb has a big voice: he owns the Manchester Union Leader, the state's only daily morning newspaper, and he runs it to suit himself. A rock-ribbed conservative Republican, who once called Dwight Eisenhower "that stinking hypocrite in the White House," Loeb for years was a devoted admirer of New Hampshire's G.O.P. Senator Styles Bridges. When Bridges died last month, Loeb publicly urged Governor Wesley Powell to appoint Bridges' widow, Deloris, 45, ta her husband's Senate seat. But Powell, himself a longtime Loeb favorite, decided instead to name...
...member of the John Birch Society, Walker applauded the organization's leader, former Boston Candymaker Robert Welch, found nothing offensive in Welch's attacks on Dwight Eisenhower as a "conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy." Said Walker, scowling: "The future will tell why Joseph F. Barnes* was permitted to write Crusade in Europe...
...terms as a U.S. Representative before becoming Grover Cleveland's Vice President, Adlai Stevenson served as Governor, after a 572,000-vote plurality over his Republican opponent. But wrhen he became the Democratic presidential standardbearer, he lost the state by heavy margins in his two unsuccessful bids against Dwight Eisenhower...
...Robert Welch, 62. So suspicious that he often denounces shuffling or coughing in his audience as "a dirty Communist trick," Welch has a gift for such phrases as "Comsymp." which he uses as a label for many who disagree with him, and a talent for such slander as describing Dwight Eisenhower as "a conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy." His causes are many: they range from a campaign against the fluoridation of water to one demanding the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren. Welch is a skilled or ganizer who devoutly believes that internal Communism can best be fought...
...scored some of journalism's most notable beats (including one on the lamplight swearing-in of President Coolidge in Vermont), a ruggedly independent newsman who advised his son to steer clear of political press-agentry but came to take high pride in "Young Jim's" performance as Dwight Eisenhower's press secretary; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...