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...literate Washingtonians know from billboards plastered from Seattle to Pysht, Humptulips, Fishtrap, Washougal, Tiger and Nooksack that the state is in the middle of a classic campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate-a kind of modern-day fork in the road. One direction leads to Democrat Warren Magnuson, who is staking his fight for re-election on a record of performance of over twelve years in the Senate, and promises a comfortable status quo, only more so. The other leads to Arthur Bernard Langlie, longtime governor of Washington, who promises to work in the Senate for a different...
Good-Time Maggie. Heavyset, handsome Warren Grant Magnuson, 51, is in many ways Langlie's exact opposite. Maggie Magnuson (who says privately of Langlie's piety: "We better watch that guy at Easter time") is a cigar-puffing, Cadillackadaisical, free-roaming bachelor. Like Langlie, he has a Scandinavian background. But there the similarity ceases. A Washingtonian who knows both sums up the difference: "Art Langlie is the right-living, stern-conscienced, Sunday-go-to-meeting Scandinavian. Maggie is the ever-loving, good-time-Charlie Scandinavian come out of the woods on Saturday night for fun and sociability...
...reason for the all-out Democratic effort: egged on by National Chairman Paul Butler, the Senate Democrats hoped to pass the bill, draw an Eisenhower veto that would, in the power-conscious Northwest, help the campaigns of Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse and Washington's Senator Warren Magnuson...
Washington (26): All for Favorite Son Warren Magnuson on the first ballot. After that, probably a majority for Stevenson...
More important, the President has dedicated himself to helping the Republican Party recapture Congress. He was active in persuading Washington's Governor Arthur Langlie to run against Senator Warren Magnuson, in talking Assistant State Secretary Thruston Morton into trying for the Senate seat now held by Kentucky's Earle Clements, in arranging for Interior Secretary McKay to hit the Oregon trail against Wayne Morse. Among incumbent Republican Senators who can expect Ike's direct aid are Pennsylvania's Duff, Connecticut's Prescott Bush and Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley...