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...West Virginia Republicans tried hard to prove that homespun Democratic Attorney General Wallace Barron had bribed a rival to withdraw from this year's primary. They also ripped into Barren's record as liquor commissioner in the scandal-strewn regime (1953-57) of Democratic Governor William Marland. It was wasted effort; in a Democratic landslide. Barron easily whipped game G.O.P. Challenger Harold Neely, who had been in politics less than three years...
...Gorwin's commentary is serviceable. Helped by Guitarist Clark Allen and an opening night appearance by Sandburg himself-who received a standing ovation-the two stars offer a sound recital. Leif Erickson has the right vigor and directness, and if Bette Davis substitutes very high-styled authority for homespun warmth, this is probably all to the good-the real danger was not toughness but tremolo...
...just to show he didn't give a damn about those who snubbed him. He collected a circle of hangers-on who called him "Lord" Timothy and he gloried in the title. In his curious book called A Pickle for the Knowing Ones; or Plain Truths in a Homespun Dress, he proclaimed: "Ime the first Lord in the younited States of Amercay ... It is the voice of the peopel and I cant help it." He kept a private poet and had him crowned at an elaborate public ceremony, once brought a lion from New York and invited the public...
...waitress in the Coburn Hotel, as a clerk at the Green Brothers' 5 and 10? store or a pieceworker in a local shoe factory. There was never any lack of necessities, though, and in the tranquil years before the First World War, the Chase youngsters had a pleasant, homespun childhood. At Christmas the family went out in the country in George Chase's buckboard and cut their own spruce tree, decorating it with popcorn and cranberries and cheesecloth bags full of oranges. "Our Christmas presents were always things we were going to get anyway," recalls Margaret Smith. "Mother...
Died. Laurence Frederick Whittemore, 66, homespun New England booster and industrialist, a onetime Boston & Maine carshop laborer who became president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from 1946 to 1948, president of the New Haven Railroad for the next 15 months before taking over Brown Co., a New Hampshire paper producer whose profits he quadrupled to $4,400,000 within three years; of cancer; at Concord, N.H., six miles from his native Pembroke, which his ancestors founded 200 years ago and which he had served as moderator for 25 years...