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...Kerr was born in an Oklahoma log cabin; he became the wealthiest member of the U.S. Senate. He could have bought Brooks Brothers out of the change in his pants pocket; but his baggy blue suits looked as if they had been ordered from a Montgomery Ward catalogue. He was a deeply Christian man who gave at least 30% of his vast wealth to the Baptist church; yet he felt no compunction whatever about using his Senate position to fight for tax laws that would enhance his own riches. He could be gentle; once, when a longtime Negro houseman...
Many years ago, Kerr set forth his ambitions: "A family, to make a million dollars and to be Governor of Oklahoma -in that order." He achieved all these-and much more. Some of his colleagues liked him; others loathed him. Almost all respected and feared him. Said a friend, New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson: "I used to tell Bob that I'd like to take a knife and open up his skull and examine the convolutions of his brain...
Such a man was Robert Samuel Kerr that when he died last week at 66, of a coronary occlusion, after two weeks in a hospital, neither his friends nor his enemies could really believe it. For Kerr seemed indestructible...
Mary, Mary, by Jean Kerr, is a Broadway thoroughbred with over 750 performances behind it, and still not winded, frazzled or fading...
Chancellor McHenry should have no trouble getting students. Santa Cruz is remote, offers few jobs for those who must earn-and-learn. But the expected cost will still be only about $1,500 a year And of all California campuses, says Present Kerr. Santa Cruz "may attract the most adventurous...