Word: ex-governor
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...grateful celebration" of their 50th wedding anniversary, New York's Democratic ex-Governor and Senator, Herbert H. Lehman, 82, and his wife Edith gave a $500,000 present to the children of New York City. The money was accepted by the city for construction of a children's zoo that Lehman envisions in Central Park, just across the street from the Leh-mans' longtime place of worship, Temple Emanu...
...Merci, Merci'." In Manhattan. United Nations' Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, Democrat-at-Large Adlai Stevenson. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller and ex-Governor Averell Harriman paid homage at the general's hotel suite in what the New York Herald Tribune called a "little summit.'' Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., honored De Gaulle in his own language; Mayor Wagner, not to be outdone, quoted from Victor Hugo; and the New York Times ran the complete text of De Gaulle's speech in French. For dinner, the Waldorf's candlelit...
Republican Doerfer, a longtime Wisconsin politician and bureaucrat, and a protégé of Senator Alexander Wiley and ex-Governor Walter Kohler, went to Washington in 1953 as a member of the FCC, was elevated to the chairmanship...
...mental hospitals (TIME, June 15 et seq.), Ole Earl, 64, tried to get himself nominated as next Lieutenant Governor in the free-for-all primary, put a hand-picked successor in as Governor. He cagily passed a bill to change the Democratic primary date from traditional Tuesday to work-free Saturday, thus tried to lure all the Long-loving back-country people down to the voting machines. But even the backwoods had seen enough; neither Earl nor his candidate for Governor, ex-Governor James A. Noe, 65, got enough votes to win a place in next January's decisive...
...veteran reform Mayor of New Orleans (four four-year terms), clobbered by Ole Earl in the 1956 gubernatorial primary, and running an uphill race against rural Louisiana's traditional prejudice against 1) a big-city boy and 2) a Roman Catholic. Some 63,000 votes behind Morrison came ex-Governor (1944-48) Jimmie Davis, sometime songwriting guitarist (You Are My Sunshine), who riled Ole Earl by stealing away the support of the Old Guard New Orleans regulars, won 207,000 votes with a serious, nonsinging campaign. With the 340,000 total votes of the nine also-rans providing...