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...Getter. In Fond du Lac, Wis., fined $65 for reckless driving, Gerald W. Oelerich was tagged an additional $10 for contempt after he interrupted court proceedings to ask the judge: "You wouldn't lend me the money, would you, Your Honor...
...minutes later Mrs. Clara Terry, George Bender's secretary, broke the news to Bender. Ohio's five-term Governor Frank Lausche, fabled Democratic vote-getter, had decided not to run for another term as governor of Ohio, instead had announced that day his candidacy for Bender's Senate seat. George Bender turned pale and left the room...
...break than winning $100,000 outright. Host and question asker will be Edgar Bergen, assisted by such wooden stooges as Charlie McCarthy, Effie Clinker and Mortimer Snerd. CBS is confident that Do You Trust Your Wife? will be right up with The $64,000 Question as an attention-getter. Newsmen who last week watched a Hollywood run-through of the new show feared that CBS might be right...
...feuding conservative parties, the Liberals and the Democrats, into one gigantic party, the Liberal-Democrats, which will control 300 of 467 seats in the Diet's Lower House. The merger marks the beginning of the end for Ichiro Hatoyama, who as a candidate was a great vote getter, but in office has been a weak, indecisive and garrulous Prime Minister. Hatoyama will stay in office until next April, but with a new Cabinet to be divided almost equally between Democrats and Liberals...
Almost all of Cambridge's city councillors are in the race for mayor, but none of them expects to get elected. Even top vote-getter, independent Edward J. Sullivan, only smiled at the suggestion that he might be the next mayor...