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...Quayle gave a boost to the Republican ticket in Indiana, but Hoosier Democrats won with a favorite son of their own: Evan Bayh, 32, offspring of former U.S. Senator Birch Bayh. Handily defeating Lieutenant Governor John Mutz, 53, he became the first Democrat to run the state in 20 years. Bayh has served 22 months as secretary of state, in contrast to Mutz's twelve years in the statehouse and senate, but the young Democrat successfully moved away from his father's liberalism and attacked Mutz for backing tax increases and state subsidies for foreign investors...
...that age. You call home. You call home to Mother and Father and say, 'I'd like to get into the National Guard.' " The only difference was that Quayle's parents were not quite Ma and Pa Kettle. His mother Corinne is the daughter of Eugene Pulliam, a conservative Hoosier press lord who dominated the state as the publisher of the Indianapolis News and the Indianapolis Star. The managing editor of the News was then Wendell Phillippi, a retired major general who had commanded the Indiana Guard. According to Phillippi, Quayle called him to ask for help in getting into...
Indiana (11th) and Georgia (7th) should be one of the closest matches of the day. But there will be no "Hoosier"-type miracle here. Georgia will advance to the next round...
Harvard coaches have a similar problem employing a rah-rah type of leadership. Imagine Bobby Knight, Indiana coach and Hoosier bad boy, coaching the Harvard basketball team. Throwing chairs. Cursing. Telling his players that they should send their games to a laundromat for a complete wash...
DIED. William E. Jenner, 76, ultraconservative Republican Senator from Indiana (1944-45, 1947-59) who was sometimes known as the "Hoosier McCarthy" because of his rabid anti-Communism and fervent admiration for his Wisconsin colleague, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy; of a respiratory ailment; in Bedford, Ind. He opposed the Marshall Plan for European recovery, and collective security measures, including the nato alliance, and in 1950 called General George Marshall "a living lie" and "a front man for traitors." As head of the Internal Security Subcommittee, he conducted a noisy investigation of suspected Communists in the teaching profession...