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...significance of the Wisconsin primary was in how the voters of one of the more enlightened states reacted to the debate over McCarthyism. Joe was up against stern opposition. His opponent, Lawyer Len Schmitt, was able and well known. Schmitt put on a vigorous, adequately financed campaign in which he got a respectful hearing. Wisconsin law allows members of one party to vote in the other's primary, and Democrats were strongly urged to get in there and beat Joe. Democrats by the thousands apparently did vote in the Republican primary -but most of them voted for McCarthy...
Shortly after he reached Chicago from Houston, Governor Lee seemed to agree with Senator Taft's statement about him. Lee and the two other Taft governors-Len Jordan of Idaho and Norman Brunsdale of North Dakota-repudiated the Houston statement that they had signed. Their delegations voted with Taft's side in the rules fight. Said Lee: "The statement ... at Houston was signed ... to see that everything that was done was above reproach. But ... in fairness to everyone concerned, it is impossible for me to see how you can change long-established rules in the middle...
...Yorkshire's Len Hutton, the captaincy of Britain's cricket team for this week's Test Match with India; in London. Hutton, 13th player ever to make a 100th century, i.e., score 100 (or more) runs in one inning, is the first professional ever to captain a British team...
...Stroke Len Wheeler, for example, rowed stroke on a fair Exeter boat last spring. A slim, steady oarsman, he's almost the smallest man in the shell at 176 pounds. Behind Wheeler, on the starboard side, is Mike Metcalf, while Ned Brookfield holds down the number six slot. At five and four Leavitt has placed Darrell and Howle Cushing...
...head. He was keeping an eye on the judge. After only 15 minutes, one of the shortest final deliberations in Westminster records, Judge Sims gave the Doberman the nod. Storm promptly jumped up & down and pawed and licked his handler-just as if he knew he had won. Owner Len Carey bought him as a puppy, sight unseen, and has kept him in show trim by exercising him in Manhattan's Central Park. Carey, an advertising executive, was not surprised at his dog's triumph: "He's strictly a ham. He knows what a flashbulb...