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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ranting & Liberal. The powerful Rules Committee, will fall to Illinois' 82-year-old Adolph J. Sabath, the Ways & Means Committee to North Carolina's Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton, who last week celebrated his 85th birthday. In the place of New Jersey's Fred Hartley as chairman of the Labor Committee will be Michigan's liberal John Lesinski. Chairmanship of the Un-American Activities Committee will return to Georgia's John S. Wood, who, following past form, will probably let Mississippi's ranting John Rankin run the show...
...Massachusetts' John W. MacCormack becomes House majority leader, as expected, he will probably abandon his claim on the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments. Next in line is Chicago's William L. Dawson, one of two Negroes in Congress (the other: New York's Adam Clayton Powell Jr.). Born in Georgia, Dawson is big, dark-skinned, a lawyer, a powerful speaker. He would be the first Negro to serve as a committee chairman in modern congressional history...
...ROBERT L. COFFEY JR., 30, is a onetime coal miner. He resigned his Air Force lieutenant-colonelcy and his post as air attache at the U.S. Embassy in Chile to run for office in a traditionally Republican district of western Pennsylvania. With little money or organization, but with labor's help in ringing doorbells, curly-haired Bob Coffey, a veteran of 97 fighter combat flights in Europe, strafed five-term Congressman Harve Tibbott's isolationist record. Coffey is one of eleven new Democratic Congressmen from Pennsylvania ; President Truman had campaigned in all but one of their districts...
...BURNSIDE, 49, is a professor of political science at Marshall College in Huntington, W.Va., who failed to win in 1946. This time, with coal miners out in full cry to show John L. Lewis that he could not tell them how to vote, Burnside and three other Democrats toppled Republican incumbents...
...taken tall, long-faced Francis Poulenc, 49, a long time to get here ("During the war it was impossible, and before that I was not célèbre"). But he was making up for lost time. Unlike many visiting composers, who felt just as sure of themselves with a baton as with a pen, Poulenc wouldn't be caught dead on a podium. Says he, throwing up his hands: "I have no tempo." Instead, Manhattan audiences saw him first as piano accompanist to Baritone Pierre Bernac in a recital of the songs which, along with his religious...