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Agriculture: Minnesota's defeated Governor Orville Freeman; South Dakota's ex-Congressman George McGovern; Wisconsin's Governor Gaylord Nelson...
Elected Kentucky's Governor by an alltime-record majority (515,299 to 335,404): Bert Thomas Combs, 48, wiry (5 ft. 10 in.), handsome ex-judge from the mountain-valley town of Prestonsburg (pop. 3,585, altitude 645 ft). Combs exploited a year of falling farm income by attacking his opponent, G.O.P. ex-Congressman (1952-58) John M. Robsion Jr., for pro-Benson votes while in the House-and never missed a chance to mispronounce Robsion's name "Ro-Ben-son." Combs's running mate for Lieutenant Governor, onetime Louisville Mayor Wilson Watkins Wyatt...
Connecticut: Ex-Congressman Thomas J. Dodd turned a cautiously predicted victory into an overwhelming one, blasted Incumbent Republican Senator William Purtell out of office...
...Since then, factional wounds have been healing and Kohler has found allies among the defeated six. But he could establish no such rapport with Latecomer Boyle, an old hand at going after the frontrunner. Last year Boyle jumped into a G.O.P. primary between Senator Alexander Wiley and conservative ex-Congressman Glenn Davis, helped Wiley win by picking off about 5% of Davis' conservative vote. He makes no bones about trying to trip Walter Kohler in the same fashion. "If Kohler is beaten," he explained, "the Republican Party of Wisconsin will have to nominate a conservative...
...potato salad" (and brought him in third). Another was Gerald D. Lorge, 35, a "fighting marine" who fought a campaign in Joe McCarthy's image, came in sixth to discover what nearly everyone else realized: even in Wisconsin, McCarthyism is dead. But the stiffest battle came from young ex-Congressman Glenn Davis, 42, who was supported by most conservative Republicans. Davis, who had promised to look Ike in the eye and say No if he got to Washington, carried 31 of Wisconsin's 71 counties, led by 12,000 votes until late returns rolled in from populous Milwaukee...