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Nothing that Republican William Fife Knowland has done yet in his bulldozing effort to take the Governor's seat seems to plow under the omens: that he is in for a fearsome drubbing from Democratic Candidate Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, state attorney general (TIME, Sept. 15). Knowland, who shouldered Governor Goodwin J. Knight aside so that he could run, has suffered a series of campaign reverses, most recently last week when three of the four Hearst papers in California endorsed the Brown candidacy-the first endorsement of a Democratic gubernatorial candidate in more than 30 years. And although "Goodie...
...uphill campaign for California's governorship weren't enough of a load, U.S. Senator William Fife Knowland had to have a pamphlet too. At least his well-meaning wife, Helen, thought so. So she distributed some 500 copies of a 30-page diatribe against A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther, Meet the Man Who Plans to Rule America. Then she asked about the rate for 10,000 more pamphlets, writing Author Joseph P. Kamp that his was "a powerful message which could actually swing the pendulum in California if it could be gotten into the hands of millions...
Destiny was waiting last week on the San Diego waterfront, where Pat Brown "officially" opened his campaign against William Fife Knowland, 50, retired as Republican leader of the U.S. Senate to run for Governor in California...
Point of Agreement. Just six days before, also in San Diego, the opposition candidate, an entirely different sort of man, had opened an entirely different sort of campaign. William Fife Knowland came not to be liked but to demand respect. Outside San Diego's Russ Auditorium, big, dead-serious Bill Knowland seemed incongruous against the stock California political backdrop-a marimba band, Japanese girls, a flame swallower in vaquero costume. Knowland moved carefully among some 300 people, here pausing for a solemn word, there posing with a tight grin for a photograph, all the while working toward the speaker...
...that single point, just plain Pat and just plain U.S. Senator William Fife Knowland are in complete agreement. California is the second largest (13,600,000, against New York's 15,800,000) and fastest growing (at a breakneck clip of 500,000 a year since 1950) state in the Union. In its infinite variety, in professionally sophisticated San Francisco and professionally unsophisticated Los Angeles, in the big cotton growers of the Imperial and San Joaquin valleys and the lettuce growers of the Salinas Valley, in Okies and Arkies come to suburban prosperity, in oil drillers and gold diggers...