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...Karl Fritjof Rolvaag is balding, jowly and dumpy, looks at least a decade older than his 53 years, and in public wears the bemused air of a Norwegian farmer lost in the big city. In his first term as Governor of Minne sota, Rolvaag seemed so ineffectual that an opinion poll last February gave him the unqualified approval of only 9% of the voters. In June he was summarily rejected even by his own Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which chose Lieut. Governor A. M. ("Sandy") Keith, 37, as its gubernatorial candidate. Last week, nonetheless, Rolvaag won the D.F.L. nomination...
...late O. E. Rolvaag's 1924 classic Giants in the Earth portrayed the trials of a yeoman Norwegian family that strove doggedly to conquer the Great Plains, only to be consumed in the struggle. The author's son, Minnesota Governor Karl Fritjof Rolvaag, 52, has come to experience the same sort of futility. Though he has been a dedicated, longtime party worker, Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party last week dumped him in a bruising convention fight for the party's gubernatorial endorsement. Picked instead was ambitious, boyish-looking Lieutenant Governor A. M. ("Sandy") Keith...
Actually there was little doubt about the nominees in next week's primary: Knowland had no opposition; Brown faced only an obscure San Francisco businessman; Clair Engle had a sharp edge over a 28-year-old Democratic unknown named Fritjof Peder Thygeson, and Goodie Knight would doubtless weather George Christopher's worst insults. But California candidates can crossfile, appear on both parties' ballots. All knew that next week's primary would 1) be an important popularity poll and 2) give some first answers to three burning questions...
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