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First to go was none other than P.C.A.'s cochairman, Columnist Frank Kingdon. At the closed meeting of P.C.A.'s executive committee in New York, ex-Preacher...
...Kingdon voted the only "no" and then resigned from P.C.A. He liked Henry Wallace, he said, but a "third ticket in 1948 is a pipe dream." Besides, Kingdon was out for the regular Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator in New Jersey...
Camera-shy Albert Einstein was surrounded (from left to far left) by guests: grinning Editor Henry Agard Wallace, whose "courage and devotion" got Einstein's bravo; grinning Columnist Frank Kingdon, who got Wallace's endorsement for Senator from New Jersey; and grinning Singer Paul Robeson, who seconded Kingdon's nomination...
P.C.A. had lived in a foggy world since it was formed last December by merging Dr. Frank Kingdon's National Citizens Political Action Committee and bearded Sculptor Jo Davidson's Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions (TIME, Jan. 6). P.C.A. had refused to exclude Communists, had never had too clear a program...
Having decided this, they still needed a new co-chairman to stand beside Dr. Kingdon;. from Paris, Sculptor Jo Davidson had wired that he would take his beard out of politics. P.C.A, quickly found a new man: California's fast-talking Robert Kenny, ex-state attorney general, onetime unsuccessful candidate for governor, leftist Democratic opponent of the state's Democratic right wing, and, of course, an eager supporter of Henry Wallace for President...