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...Len Hall the President's decision was the payoff of a political bet made five months ago. After Ike's heart attack, when nearly everybody else in the U.S. wondered whether the President would be able to finish his first term let alone try for a second, Hall foresaw how much havoc Ike's failure to run would play with the Republican Party. "I'll cross that bridge when I come to it," he said, "and when I come to it, I'll jump off." On Sept. 26, two days after the heart attack, Hall...
...Len Hall's unwavering conviction enabled him to keep the Republican elephant moving forward at a time when most Republicans were sucking their thumbs. Before the President had made up his own mind, Hall decided that he just had to run again if it was humanly possible, because there was no other Republican available who could touch him as a candidate. Adding his political facts, the chairman concluded that Ike, as a cardiac case, could never undertake another exhausting whistle-stop tour of the nation, and that, anyway, in the era of telecommunications, the 21-in. screen...
Three-Ring Circus. In his capacity as mahout of the Republican elephant, Len Hall has one of the most sensitive jobs in politics. As G.O.P. chairman, Hall is the producer of a circus with three rings: the National Committee, which handles the presidential and vice presidential campaigns and maps out overall party strategy, and its two auxiliaries on Capitol Hill, the Senate and House Campaign Committees, which concentrate on local congressional campaigns...
However, it was not considered cricket for a professional to become the team captain. The first man for whom that unwritten rule was broken is Yorkshireman Len Hutton, one of Britain's alltime cricket greats...
...Last year, under his leadership, England won again. Hutton became a national hero. But at 39, he was past his prime; a wartime accident had left one arm shorter than the other, and he had trouble holding his own against speedball bowlers. Last week, on his doctors' advice, Len Hutton retired-and all England mourned. There is no one in sight to take his place, among either gentlemen or players. "His defense was an iron curtain," wrote the Times; "his cover drive was the game's most classic stroke; the way he touched the peak...