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...Eastern and African Affairs, Henderson watched Iran, with U.N. and U.S. help, weather the crisis in 1946, when the Red Army finally got out of the northern part of the country. ¶ To replace Henderson in India, President Harry Truman nominated Chester Bowles, ex-partner in the advertising firm of Benton & Bowles, wartime OPA administrator, ex-Governor of Connecticut. Left-wing Democrats have long argued that U.S.-Indian relations suffer because the U.S. does not show India its liberal face. If there is any merit in this argument, Liberal Bowles should be able to improve matters. The chief obstacle...
...When ex-Governor Jim Duff went to Washington as U.S. Senator last year, he thought he had licked old Republican Boss Joe Grundy once & for all, and had left the state in safe hands. In the bitter Republican primary, Duff denounced Grundy and his Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association as a bunch of "high-button-shoe reactionaries." Duff won, against all the power that 87-year-old Grundy could bring against him. With him ran his hand-picked successor as governor, a superior court judge named John Fine...
...devoted to brain teasers ("There are two windows, each four feet from top to bottom, and four feet across-why does one give twice as much light as the other?").* On the opening show, M. C. Doug Browning and his panel of experts (Actors Nina Foch and Charles Korvin, ex-Governor Hoffman of New Jersey, Producer Hi Brown) ended up in nearly as much confusion as the TV audience...
...token of esteem for the man who ran for President in 1948 on the Dixiecrats' states' rights program, the friends brought along a shiny new Cadillac and five crisp $100 bills to help the Thurmonds set up housekeeping at Aiken. "I'm floored," said the ex-governor. Thurmond planned to practice law, said he was not sure whether he would stay in politics. But some of his admirers were not so doubtful. Said Thurmond's friend Leon Moore, ex-mayor of Spartanburg: "None of [us] figure we are buying oats for a dead horse...
...While Fadden was working in City Hospital, the head Harvard surgeon asked him to help in the College's medical room. So Jack did x-rays and physiotherapy there and kept at it during the two years he attended Harvard. After that, he went into the automobile business with ex-Governor Fuller, spent a year as trainer at Amherst (where he met Jordan), and then took care of injuries at a local machine tool factory during the war. In 1943, the Boston Yankees (later called the New York Bulldogs and now the New York Yankees) hired Fadden and he stayed...