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...tend to forget or ignore the fact that Dirksen has become the most effective G.O.P. floor leader in a line of succession that includes Oregon's Charles McNary, Maine's Wallace White, Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, Ohio's Robert Taft and California's William Knowland...
...able to undercut the Chronicle rates. Furthermore, Bill Hearst is well aware that should he ever abandon San Francisco's evening field, he would leave it wide open for the Chronicle-which could then move in and publish round the clock-or to an outsider like Bill Knowland's Oakland Tribune across...
Having decided that she had not "done anything for ten years (I tried to learn to play bridge, but I just couldn't stand it)," Clarice ("Cookie") Knowland, 59 -third wife of Oakland Tribune Publisher Joseph R. Knowland, 88, and stepmother of its current editor, ex-Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland -upped and registered for Journalism 4500 (Editing) at Alameda State College night school. To a standard questionnaire demanding whether she was interested in a career in journalism, the zippy ex-schoolmarm responded with already professional economy: "In a family...
...than an ideological split. Californians reject the give-and-take game which most people consider politics, in favor of much more devious routes to power. The conspiratorial flavor of Birchism, rather than its philosophy, reflects this penchant--as does the elaborate scheme worked out in 1958 by ex-Senator Knowland for putting himself in the Governor's Mansion (and then, presumably, in the White House) and Goody Knight in the Senate. Knowland's scheme crashed around him, and like a defeated putsch-ist he has retired from politics completely...
...weeks before Oakland's Auditorium Theater opened its doors on the first Crusade session there, the Bay Area was in furor. The San Francisco Chronicle denounced Schwarz as a phantom hunter; the Oakland Tribune, whose editor, former Senator William Knowland, is a Schwarz admirer ("Dr. Schwarz is very intelligent and sincere"), backed the Crusade. There was an unholy row about a proclamation, carrying the names of 55 Bay Area mayors, that declared last week "AntiCommunism Week." When Schwarz critics protested, the mayor of Fairfax denied that he had ever signed the proclamation, the mayor of San Jose said that...