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When hulking Richard Truman Frankensteen was nominated for mayor of Detroit, many a U.S. left-winger got excited. Frankensteen was a founder and vice president of the vast United Automobile Workers, C.I.O. He had bled at the hands of Ford "service men" at the famed Battle of the Underpass in 1937. He also seemed to have some political sex appeal: he was a college man (University of Dayton '32), a ready speaker, young (38) and did not mind admitting that he wrote operettas, collected dolls as a hobby. If U.S. labor was to produce, not merely influence poli. ticians...
Strategic Bombing. As the battle lines were drawn last week, the U.A.W. lined up its own general staff: Secretary-Treasurer George F. Addes, 35, ex-metal worker and leader of the union's far-left wing; Vice President Richard Truman Frankensteen, 38, now running for mayor of Detroit; Walter Reuther, 38, boss of the union's left-of-center faction; and President Rolland Jay Thomas, 45, balance wheel between the warring Reuther-Addes factions...
...Detroit's nonpartisan mayoralty primary, big, burly Richard Truman Frankensteen, 38, vice president of the C.I.O.'s mighty United Automobile Workers, not only won nomination, but, to the surprise of everybody, led the field of seven. His closest opponent was three-term Mayor Edward J. Jeffries Jr., who will oppose Frankensteen in the run-off November election...
...help Democrat Frankensteen -win, the hard-digging C.I.O. Political Action Committee canvassed the city, brought out 200,000 voters, 60,000 more than politicos had forecast. Besides Mayor Jeffries, Dick Frankensteen might also have to overcome opposition from Detroit's A.F. of L. unions; they talked of lining up solidly against...
...Richard Frankensteen, beefy international vice president of the United Auto Workers, and candidate for Mayor of Detroit, broke out his hobby collection for photographers just before the Detroit primary, in a last-minute bid for the women's vote. The hobby: dolls...