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...Gillette was trounced by Iowa's short, balding Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper, an able, popular Governor with internationalist leanings. South Dakota's Chan Gurney, a Republican who has supported the Roosevelt foreign policy 100%, won easy reelection. In Washington, the seat vacated by pre-Pearl Harbor Isolationist Homer Bone went to honey-haired Congressman Warren Magnuson, a 1,000% New Dealer...
...Indiana had a new Senator, beaming, round-faced Republican Homer Capehart, the juke-box king, who nosed out homespun Governor Henry F. Schricker...
Quick to honor a hero, quick to resent a slur are the rangy sons of the Lone Star State. Last week, quickened by both these emotional spurs, hot-hearted Texans rallied in droves to the banner of scholarly, pious Homer Price Rainey, president since 1939 of the sprawling University of Texas at Austin. Balding, unprepossessing Dr. Rainey, who worked his way through school and college to become one of the leading U.S. educators, was locked in battle with the Texas Board of Regents...
Indiana. Hulking, heavy-jowled millionaire Republican Homer Capehart, who manufactures juke boxes and super-phonographs and is experimenting with television, was having trouble. His opponent for the Senate: mild, homespun Democratic Governor Henry Schricker, 61, who has eaten fried chicken in almost every church basement in Indiana. Democrat Schricker shrewdly avoids discussing Term IV in Indiana...
...beaten the Tigers in three years. By the time the Browns went to work against the third-place New York Yankees-before an alltime record home crowd of 37,815-the Scoreboard showed Detroit trailing by three runs. By the time Chet Laabs had pumped the first Brownie homer of the day (he hit another the next inning) into Sportsman's Park's left-field bleachers, Detroit had lost, 4-to-1. A better team than the Browns might have wilted right then & there, but Luke Sewell & Co. were not even breathing hard; they breezed...