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Under the Door. His death, which came on the last day for filing in the primary elections, caused an unseemly scramble in Nebraska. Less than 90 minutes after Butler died, a Lincoln attorney representing fiery-eyed ex-Congressman Howard Buffett of Omaha knocked on the door of Secretary of State Frank Marsh's home in Lincoln, and asked Marsh to accept Buffett's filing for Butler's unexpired term. Secretary Marsh, holding that the deadline had passed when he locked his statehouse office at 5 p.m.. refused. Later that night, in the quiet darkness...
...Jersey's junior U.S. Senator, Robert Hendrickson, but he was considered a political deadweight. Private polls showed that he could not win the general election in November, and perhaps not even the primary. The G.O.P. turned on the pressure, urged him to withdraw in favor of able ex-Congressman Clifford Case. Finally, party leaders told Hendrickson bluntly that he must go -but let him know that such unselfish sacrifice would not be forgotten. Hurt, and a little bewildered, Hendrickson withdrew this spring. Thus Case was assured the Republican nomination...
...backing of canny State Chairman John M. Bailey, and in a January poll, he ran ahead of his closest competitor, ex-Congressman Abraham A. Ribicoff. But while Bowles pondered, the politicians lost patience; while he played Hamlet, Ribicoff played Romeo, wooed and won party support. Even Bailey switched. At a Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Hartford, Ribicoff got a bigger hand for standing up and bowing than Bowles got for making a speech...
...seized, and his brother-in-law, Aristotle Socrates Onassis, the Greek capitalist who bought the gambling casino at Monte Carlo and operates some 80 ships around the world (TIME, Jan. 19). Onassis has had six tankers, five Victory ships and one Liberty taken over. The group of corporations that ex-Congressman Joe Casey and Newbold Morris helped set up, and that touched off a congressional investigation of all the sales (TIME, March 3, 1952 et seq.) have had five ships seized...
...Eisenhower Cabinet officers, Labor Secretary Martin Durkin has had the hardest time getting a team together. The department's new solicitor, ex-Congressman Harry Routzohn, died of a heart attack 39 days after he was confirmed. His post and three other top-level jobs remained open until last week...