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...some three weeks, a team of workmen from Zandamm, Holland, whom simply no one could understand, assembled the new modern classical organ over at Busch-Reisinger Museum. An auspicious event for music lovers and musical instrument lovers, its christening featured E. Power Biggs and free drinks for all. A late afternoon sun streamed through the windows and onto the stone floor of Romanesque Hall as groups of organists, German professors, and "friends of Busch-Reisinger Museum" clustered excitedly. Voices drifted between the hor d'oeurves...
Major deponents in this year's election race for Senator were ex-Senator Claude Pepper and Incumbent Spessard Holland (TIME, Sept. 8). What went on at the grillings was, as usual, the secret of those who took part, but apparently they were uncommonly revealing. Making its choice last week, the News headlined its editorial "A Limited Choice...
...Pepper," wrote Baggs, "has watered his philosophy . . . and we would not know what we were recommending to our readers if we recommended him." But Spessard Holland, who snipes at Pepper as an unregenerate pro-Red, "has been guilty of pine and palmetto McCarthy-ism." The News's summation: a gingerly approval of Holland-only because his seniority might help Florida's agriculture and timber industries...
Sweating in the summer heat, the candidates whooped through receptions, rallies, teachers' meetings, radio and TV stations, livestock markets, transit garages, factory shift changes, military bases, even (for Holland) a screwworm-eradication plant. According to Pepper, Democrat Holland, 66, was a "Rip van Winkle" who "is asleep most of the time and looks backward when he is awake." According to Holland, Pepper, 57, was a "radical, Communist sympathizer, socialist-trend thinker, Red, ultraliberal." On one big campaign issue, integration, there was no issue: Spessard Holland is an avowed segregationist; Claude Pepper noisily declaimed that he, too, opposes the Supreme...
...week's end Pepper and Holland were still racing breathlessly across Florida, trying to make their charges stick before the primary election day next week. Florida's politicians gauged it a close race, with Claude Pepper given a chance. It was enough to give Washington the shakes...