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Early in the campaign, the Tennessee Democratic gubernatorial primary took on the look of a minor trial of strength between the forces of Lyndon Johnson and Bobby Kennedy. Former Governor Buford Ellington, 59, a friend of the President's who resigned in January as director of the Office of Emergency Planning, faced wealthy Nashville Lawyer John Jay Hooker Jr., 35, whose style is Kennedy with a drawl, a manner he acquired from Bobby and the late President. While Ellington stressed his experience, Hooker would intone, his right hand chopping the air: "I want every man, woman and child...
...Duke Ellington and his orchestra will appear at the Union Methodist Church in Boston at 3:15 p.m. tonight to present a "sacred concert...
CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND CRAFTS Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, D.F.A., composer and jazz musician. For teaching the whole world that "It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing...
...Grammy awards - the Oscars of the record business-with Winners Roger Miller, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Bill Cosby, Petula Clark, Jody Miller, the Anita Kerr singers, Duke Ellington and his band. Guests Tony Bennett and Robert Goulet perform the winning numbers. Bob Hope, Perry Como, Steve Allen, Don Adams, Godfrey Cambridge, Bill Dana and Henry Mancini are also on hand...
Hooker's opponent for the Democratic nomination is Buford Ellington, 58, who resigned in January as President Johnson's Office of Emergency Planning chief. During an earlier term as Governor, Ellington backed Johnson for President at the 1960 Democratic Convention, and the two have often exchanged visits and swapped breeding bulls. In his political views, however, Hooker is closer to Johnson, supports medicare, a Tennessee state minimum wage law and repeal of 14(b)-none of which especially appeal to Ellington. Hooker last week accepted the Tennessee co-chairmanship of the National Lawyers Committee for the President...