Word: governor
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...seventh time, the pollees ranked President Eisenhower as the most admired living man, trailed by Sir Winston Churchill, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Evangelist Billy Graham and Harry Truman, who slipped from last year's third spot. Newcomers to this year's list: Vice President Nixon and Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus...
WILLIAM A. EGAN-THE 49TH STATE'S FIRST ELECTED GOVERNOR...
Last session, when California's Republican Senator William Knowland announced his retirement as the Senate's G.O.P. leader to run for Governor of California, the handful of Eisenhower Republicans started talking about a real chance to take over. By last August the insurgent planning revolved around Vermont's George Aiken, New Jersey's Clifford Case and New York's Jacob Javits. After such Old Guard Republicans as Nevada's George Malone, Ohio's John Bricker-and Bill Knowland himself-got soundly whipped in the November elections, Aiken & Co. felt sure that they were...
Born. To Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 44, Governor of Maine and U.S. Senator-elect, first popularly elected Democratic Senator in Maine history, and Jane Gray Muskie, 31: their fourth child, third daughter; in Waterville...
KOHLER FAMILY FEUD is splitting the bathroom-fixture family. Nephew Walter J. Kohler Jr., onetime (1951-57) Governor of Wisconsin, charges he lost $214,156 when he sold his Kohler Co. stock to company in 1953, says that Kohler Co. gave "untrue statements" about its real value; he is suing for return of money. But Uncle Herbert Kohler, boss of company, says Walter was just an unknowing seller, should have asked the right questions before he sold...