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James F. Hoge Jr.,38. The editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, seventh largest U.S. morning newspaper (circ. 569,000), started as a police reporter after graduating from Yale, then was a White House correspondent before becoming assistant city editor in 1964. Son of a wealthy New York City lawyer, he became editor in 1968, has brightened layouts, emphasized investigative reporting and broadened coverage of the underprivileged. A handsome bachelor-about-town since his divorce from Alice Patterson Albright, whose family of Medills and Pattersons made newspaper history with their Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News and the late Washington...
...first minimum-wage bill, she ran for Congress, in 1972 became the first black woman ever sent to the House from the old Confederacy. "I didn't get here by being black or a woman," she says. "I got here by working hard." A Boston University-trained lawyer, Jordan now serves on the House Judiciary Committee...
...Stanley Pottinger, 34. A politically conservative, Harvard-trained lawyer from Ohio, Pottinger joined the Nixon Administration almost five years ago. He spent most of 1970 traversing the South for HEW, helping complete the integration of public schools. As Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's civil rights division since 1973, he played a key role in reopening the Kent State investigation and started an Office of Indian Rights. Pottinger points out that in the last 18 months, "we've filed more [civil rights] suits than in any comparable period in the division's history...
Thomas P. Salmon, 42, in 1973 became Vermont's second Democratic Governor in 119 years. He was helped by a divisive GOP primary and a shirtsleeve campaign against development: "Vermont is not for sale " A lawyer who was a judge at 30 and the youngest minority leader in the history of the state house of representatives at 35, Salmon has helped enact stringent laws to control land development and speculation. Rather than seek retiring Senator George Aiken's seat he is running for a second term, intending to complete the programs he has begun...
...post in 1971 elicited congratulatory phone calls from a gaggle of presidential hopefuls. Although he opposes busing and led a pro-Viet Nam parade in 1965, the unpredictable Troy endorsed George McGovern In 1972-probably just to stymie the ambitions of his bete noire, John Lindsay. A Fordham-educated lawyer who has proved expert at traditional back-room gambits, he is the son of a retired local judge who was, he says, "very independent and a pain to everybody -so I guess we're alike...