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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While building a reputation as a conservative Republican statesman on Capitol Hill, Colorado's able, lucid Gene Millikin had sadly neglected the first principle of the politicians' trade. Only a few Colorado voters knew their junior Senator personally; his political fences were sagging with disrepair. By last week the fact stood out like Gene Millikin's huge bald dome on a sunny day: one of the strongest Republicans in Senate councils was in for the battle of his political life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Broken Fences | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...with mouse), a lanky, homespun former mining-camp lawyer. If Knous entered the race, the conservative, Republican-tinged Denver Post reported last week (and if the results of a statewide poll held true), 65% of Colorado's voters would vote for a change; only 27% wanted to keep Gene Millikin on. Even if Knous could be sidetracked with a federal judgeship, the Democrats had another odds-on favorite: Denver's Congressman John Albert Carroll, a husky, 48-year-old ex-policeman who walks a straight Fair Deal line. He led Millikin by a decisive margin in an earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Broken Fences | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...overly concerned by the pollsters findings, Millikin stoutly predicted that "any Republican candidate for the Senate in Colorado will win ... in 1950." But he was worried enough to take a tip from Ohio's Taft. Last week Gene Millikin was off on a two-week tour, renewing old friendships and cultivating new votes in his home state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Broken Fences | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Crooning Cowboy Gene Autry makes an estimated $2,000,000 a year from his movies, radio show (Sat. 8 p.m., CBS), commercial enterprises and personal appearances. Last week he happily admitted that he was getting another $500 a week just to stay off TV. As an option on his TV services, it is worth it to Wrigley's, his radio sponsor. Drawled Autry: "I figure I've got the best deal in television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Deal | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Also named were Gene Raser Kearney '51, of Richmond, Mass., and Adams House, as Associate Managing Editor; Peter Benjamin Taub '51, of Larchmont, N.Y., and Lowell House, as Sports Editor, Norman Eldridge Nichols '51, of Muskegon, Mich., and Eliot House, as Advertising Manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Douglas M. Fouquet Is Crimson President; A. E. Norman Is Elected Managing Editor | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

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