Word: kingpins
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Maryland. Now that Democrat Millard Tydings has dropped out of the field (TIME, Aug. 27), lackluster Republican Senator John Marshall Butler has the right of way. Last week Baltimore's Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro, Maryland's Democratic kingpin, sifted through the roster for a glad Tydings substitute, listed as one contender none other than Millard Tydings's wife, Society Matron Eleanor Davies Tydings...
...Turner, 35, and his partner, thick-spectacled Bill Lambert, 36, are such familiar prowlers along Portland's corrupt trails that the underworld knows them as "Fishface and Bugeyes." The latest trail took them over thousands of feet of magnetic tape-70 hours of eavesdropped conversation-supplied by Underworld Kingpin James ("Big Jim") Elkins, an ex-convict who bankrolls Portland gambling and after-hours drinking joints...
Died. Dale Carnegie, 66, kingpin self-help author (How to Win Friends and Influence People, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living), founder of the Dale Carnegie Institute ("courses in Effective Speaking, Leadership Training and Human Relations"); of uremia; in New York City. As a $2-an-evening Y.M.C.A. public-speaking teacher in Manhattan, Carnegie discovered that what his students really wanted to learn was how to make a good impression on their bosses and friends. His institute boomed into a quasi religion whose 450,000 disciples were certain that he had pointed the way to success. In 1935, Publisher...
Question: Why Not? Until George Craig came along in 1952, Bill Jenner was the kingpin in the Indiana Republican Party for nearly eight years. To get and hold control, Jenner had spent more than 20 years shouting and shoving his way upward, through the state senate, into the state chairmanship of his party and on to the U.S. Senate. Then Craig burst upon the Jenner forces as a past national commander (1949-50) of the American Legion, and slipped past the old G.O.P. powers to win the Republican nomination for governor. Elected in a landslide...
...Revenge," Italy's late King Victor Emmanuel III once said, "is a dish that should be eaten cold." Palmiro Togliatti, kingpin of Italy's Communists, followed this royal precept last week when it came time to punish a rebel in his court...