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Handbills scattered over North Carolina last week proclaimed: "Vote for Kerr Scott . . . [He] has aided our cause of nonsegregation . . . A friend of the Negro." In North Carolina the handbills were obviously no help at all to William Kerr Scott, 58, tobacco-chewing ex-governor running for the Senate seat to which little-known Attorney Alton Asa Lennon was appointed last July. Sure enough, it turned out, the handbills came from Lennon's supporters. Kerr Scott denounced the trick, swore his devotion to segregation. At week's end he won the Democratic primary anyway, beating Lennon and five other...
...required. By this week Gore, a Republican of 30 years' standing, had passed out 10,000 petition blanks. ¶ Chairman Brad Sebstad of the Marinette (Wis.) Young Republicans wrote President Eisenhower asking him to take a strong stand against "the loathsome blight of McCarthyism." ¶Wisconsin's ex-Governor Fred R. Zimmerman, 73, the state's ten-term Republican secretary of state, decided not to attend the Milwaukee Young Republican dinner when he heard McCarthy would be the speaker. Said he: "I just don't like the guy. If I thought he was a square shooter...
...Bill Langer has no such hold. He was outraged when President Eisenhower appointed his old rival, ex-Governor Fred Aandahl, as Assistant Secretary of the Interior. He has been trying without success to get two of his followers appointed to the federal bench; the Justice Department does not think his men are qualified. Last week Langer blew up again when the Administration announced the nomination of four North Dakota postmasters. Three of the four, as it happens, are Langer followers, Non-Partisan Leaguers. But that was not enough. Langer bawled that he was not consulted in advance about the appointments...
Tennessee's ex-Governor Gordon Browning, defeated by Frank Clement in 1952, published a 2,200-word excoriation of the Clement administration, reporting: "People in vast numbers are restless to know who will challenge the present state administration, and are demanding to be told." To relieve the suspense, bull-necked Gordon Browning decided to provide the answer: "Aiming at putting an end to this tragic farce,[the people] have turned to me with proper petition to offer myself as a candidate for governor...
When Fair Dealer Chester Bowles, onetime ad-agency tycoon, onetime OPA administrator and ex-governor of Connecticut, asked Harry Truman for the ambassadorship to India, he let himself in for some unexpected complications. Spending their first night on Indian soil, Bowles, his wife and their three younger children huddled together in one room of Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel, awed and made uncomfortable by the five barn-sized rooms of the viceroy suite, in which their attendants had distributed them. Bowles faced his first formal call on President Rajendra