Word: len
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good reason. Ike may like Len; Len may like Len; but Len isn't really sure whether anyone else does. This basic insecurity is, of course, highly unbecoming for a man of Mr. Hall's stature. After all, he is a former sheriff of Nassau County...
...selection caused some growling among right-wing Republicans ("The conservative wing," groused Michigan's stone-age Representative Clare Hoffman, "has been liquidated and is about to be buried"), but even these yowls seemed almost perfunctory. Serious, intense Meade Alcorn, who neither drinks nor smokes, has little of retiring Len Hall's ebullience, but he brings to the job a record for action. Born in Suffield, Conn., he attended Dartmouth, there broke the world's record for the 60-yd. low hurdles. (His 6.9-sec. mark has since been lowered to 6.8.) He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, moved...
Elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1937, he became its speaker in 1941, took an unsuccessful whirl for lieutenant governor in 1948, and four years later was chairman of the Connecticut Citizens for Eisenhower. Last year Len Hall put National Committeeman Alcorn in charge of arrangements for the smooth-clicking national convention in San Francisco. As national chairman, Alcorn has two major problems: recovering the 1956 House and Senate losses in the Midwest and Far West and continuing to build the G.O.P. in the South...
...Len Hall is bowing out of his job because he wants to run against Democrat Averell Harriman for governor of New York in 1958, and well knows that a party chairman, no matter how talented, is considered something of a political hack when it comes to a campaign for high office. Therefore, when Hall gets back from a month or more of sunning and fishing at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., he is expected to move into a high-level Washington job, where he can not only put his talents to work for the Administration that he helped reelect, but prove that...
...there was more than enough talent to keep the scouts alert. Scout Steve Owen, representing the Philadelphia Eagles, watched Purdue's Len Dawson loft his soft, leading passes and murmured, "What a ball that man throws." He watched big (265 lbs.) Don Owens of little Mississippi Southern play an abso lutely immovable defensive tackle and groaned to think that Don had already been drafted by Pittsburgh. The South's Coach Paul Brown, of the Cleveland Browns, was frankly amazed at the rugged agility of Florida Guard John Barrow. No pro team had yet drafted Barrow, but there...