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...rushed to load the same chandeliered, red-carpeted room with palms, potato chips and potables for a more friendly gathering. Following behind the food and drink came 200 G.O.P. Congressmen for a reception tendered retiring National Chairman Leonard Hall. They presented burly (6 ft. 2 in., 234 Ibs.), beaming Len Hall with a gold-plated desk set and a huge helping of kind words. But the kindest word of all that afternoon came from a noncongressional Republican who had driven over from the White House to help heap on the honors. Praising Hall for showing a political newcomer...
...Sweden's gut-racking cross-country skiing championship, Farmer Gunnar Larsson had good reason to feel discouraged. He had tried the 50-mile grind in eight previous races and never finished better than fourth. Now he was 35, and the long trail that led from Sälen, near the Norwegian border, to the small town of Mora, deep in the picturesque province of Dalecarlia, looked tougher than ever. Weather on the course veered from dim to foul. At the starting line, mist lay heavy over the hilltops, and skis had to be waxed carefully for cold snow. Later...
...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...
...Republicans, because they are just beginning to recover from a similar fiasco in Cambridge. Fortunately, there is a way out. Mr. Eisenhower, who intimated that he had not found a federal post suitable for Hall, might consider having the present sheriff of Nassau County promoted, so that Len could get his old job back. That way everybody would be happy, or almost everybody...
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...