Word: knights
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From California's Republican Governor Goodwin Jess Knight at an Arizona vacation spot last week came the nod to go ahead on the political treaty of the year: Goodie agreed to travel to Washington this week, receive the blessings of the White House, and announce that "for the good of the Republican Party" he would run for the U.S. Senate next year, leaving his governor's chair open for Senator William Fife Knowland...
...Goodie" Knight--Republican governor of the State of California--is an honest man. He's a balding, cherubic politician of the old school, a hand-shaker and a baby-kisser to whom politics is a game--not without humor nor immune to the horselaugh...
This week "Goodie" Knight yields to the law of political necessity. The august Los Angeles Times has announced that he is now a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1958. Few, perhaps, will remember that two months ago, faced with a gubernatorial primary battle with Senator William F. Knowland, Knight vowed to seek a second term as governor, regardless...
There are those who will say that relegation to a Senate seat is nothing to cry about. That's not the point. "Goodie" Knight is not a statesman; he will be lonely in Eisenhower's Washington. His political passing is merely a footnote to an age of rigid necessities. The good-natured clown is gone, and the artifice of design...
...presses, capable of turning out 128-page papers, will also allow the Sun-Times to go all out for the added circulation it could not handle in its old building. Now the ninth biggest U.S. newspaper, the Sun-Times (circ. 588,181) boasts that it has overtaken John S. Knight's Chicago News (614,098) in ad volume, and is steadily edging up to the Chicago Tribune (943,741). "Now," vowed a Sun-Times executive, "we will go to the mat with the Trib...