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Divorced. Johnston Murray, 53, onetime (1950-54) Governor of Oklahoma, son of gallus-snapping, tobacco-chawing ex-Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray; by Willie Roberta Murray, 47; in Oklahoma City...
...will run again this year. His first job: to win the Democratic primary from hard-running George P. Mahoney, perennial candidate and onetime chairman of the State Racing Commission; in this Tydings already has the backing of such powerful Democrats as Baltimore Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro and ex-Governor William Preston Lane Jr. His second job: to beat a John Marshall Butler who is notably stronger than he was in 1950, who has won the solid support of Maryland's Governor Theodore McKeldin and the busi ness community by working tirelessly for Maryland's best interests...
Georgia's ex-Governor Herman Talmadge averages four speeches a week to civic and business groups, makes countless public appearances as president of the politically potent University of Georgia alumni association, conducts a weekly TV panel show. Georgia Spotlight, under a local tire company's sponsorship. But for all his activity. Talmadge has been uncommonly coy about making his long-expected announcement of candidacy for the U.S. Senate against Walter F. George. Some Georgians, in fact, have begun to ask if Herman really means...
...Goodness Sake." Reporters pressed in hard to find if they could catch any new thinking about a possible heir apparent in case Ike does not run. Had he thought of what New York's ex-Governor Tom Dewey might do in the campaign? Said Ike: "I have not-this is the first time I have thought of it." His brother Milton? "If he has any political ambition, it is unknown to me." Had he meant to oppose Chief Justice Earl Warren as a possible candidate in a press conference two weeks before (TIME, Feb. 6). "Oppose? For goodness sake...
...Senator was heading into the probability of a primary battle against ex-Governor Herman Talmadge, a hard and shrewd man who has promised the voters a declaration of his intentions next spring...