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...West Virginia, a slate-wide Democratic defection to the G.O.P. touched off by corruption charges, helped ex-Senator (1942-48) Chapman Revercomb, 61, win handily over Governor William C. Marland in their race for the remainder of the late Harley Kilgore's term...
...Jersey, Republican Assemblywoman Florence Dwyer is a real threat to hardworking, young (36) Democratic Representative Harrison ("Pete") Williams Jr. And in West Virginia, Republican Mary Elkins, 53, wife of onetime (1919-25) Senator Davis Elkins, has an advantage over most House candidates in her race against Democratic Incumbent Harley Staggers, 49. A Washington socialite with a West Virginia address, Mrs. Elkins has only to pick up her telephone to bring into the district such leading Republicans as Vice President Nixon, Seriate Republican Leader William Knowland and Secretary of Labor James Mitchell...
Wakley was a disenchanted physician who launched the Lancet in 1823 as a vehicle to attack the abuses rampant in 19th century medicine. His magazine tilted at the high-collared sacred cows of Harley Street, crusaded for better sewage disposal, better operative technique, more humane treatment of the insane. At a time when doctors jealously guarded their hospital lectures to prevent loss of fees, the Lancet insisted that all lectures should be public property, began sending reporters into the lecture halls. When Surgeon John Abernethy complained that he was misquoted, the Lancet offered a devastating verbatim sample of his tutorial...
...University of Michigan's round, bouncy Harley Harris Bartlett, 70, director of the university's botanical gardens and one of the top botanists in the U.S. Bartlett scoured Formosa, Sumatra, Mexico, Guatemala, British Honduras and the Philippines for his botanical specimens, but to a large part of the university his chief claim to fame rested closer to home. He kept open house for his students, helped so many with their problems (and their bills) that hundreds of Michigan men and women came to know him as "Uncle Harley"-a typically absent-minded bachelor professor with a penchant...
...West Virginia, running for the U.S. Senate seat of the late Harley M. Kilgore, ex-Senator Chapman Revercomb led a Republican field of five, and Governor William C. Marland edged past State Attorney General John G. Fox to win the Democratic nomination. But in the race for governor, Democrats turned their backs on Marland-backed Milton J. Ferguson, picked Congressman Robert H. Mollohan to run against the G.O.P.'s Cecil H. Underwood, minority leader of the state house...