Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hunt (TIME. June 28), seem to have faded away like the mountain summer. G.O.P. Congressman William Henry Harrison, grandson and great-great-grandson of Presidents Benjamin and William Henry Harrison, won the Republican nomination, but only after a bitter primary fight with former G.O.P. State Chairman Ewing T. Kerr. Wyoming's tourist business is down about 15% and retail business is off about 10%. A drought has grown worse, and Democratic Candidate Joseph O'Mahoney, a veteran of 10 years in the Senate who was swept out of office by the Eisenhower landslide, is finding the parched grazing...
...Willie's father (Ed Begley) blusters from not knowing how to deal with people; his good-looking married sister is too cheaply self-centered to want even a family of her own; his sweet, bumbling mother goes around wearing rose-colored blinkers. Only his crippled older brother (John Kerr) has feeling enough for the kid to help him build a crude retaining wall; but it crumbles with the first storm, and the family, at the end, is forced to flee the house...
Along with such notable starters, ticket buyers will have a choice of a second group of possible hits: All Summer Long, by Robert (Tea and Sympathy) Anderson, with John Kerr; Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with Mendelssohn's music and Moira Shearer's dancing; Graham Greene's The Living Room; Lunatics and Lovers, a satire on sex plays, by Sidney (Dead End) Kingsley ; Portrait of a Lady, an adaptation of the Henry James novel, with Jennifer Jones; Truman Capote's musical, The House of Flowers, with Pearl Bailey; Sam & Bella Spewack...
Although public-power proponents have been trying to represent the power fight as a straight Democrat v. Republican affair, both parties have split, depending on individual projects. Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Robert S. Kerr is sponsor of the Markham Ferry Dam in his state, to be built by a state authority, aided by federal funds for flood control. A bill to allow the Alabama Power Co. to build dams on the Coosa River, sponsored by Democratic Senators Lister Hill and John Sparkman, was recently passed by Congress (TIME, June 28). On the other hand, Republican Tom Dewey wants...
When the votes were counted, U.S. Senator Robert Kerr, seeking re-election to his second term. was ahead of former Governor Roy Turner, but not far enough ahead to escape a runoff. Facing each other in a runoff for governor will be William O. Coe, Oklahoma City attorney, and Raymond Gary of Madill, president pro tem of the Oklahoma senate's last session. Willie Roberta Murray ran seventh in the field of 16 to succeed her husband, Governor Johnston Murray (in Oklahoma a governor may not succeed himself...