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...MAVERICK QUEEN (246 pp.)-Zane Grey-Harper...
Novel No. 51 on Author Grey's production line, The Maverick Queen, follows traditionally slim, traditionally grey-eyed Nebraska Cowboy Line Bradway on an errand of justice to South Pass, tangles him up with the lady leader ("the Maverick Queen") of a gang of cattle rustlers whom he suspects of his pard's murder. Ultimately it thrusts him into the arms of the queen's innocent niece ("blue eyes set wide apart, dark with excitement, red lips, sweet and tragic, a small bare head covered with golden curls"). Before Line and bride can turn "to face...
Though Republican leaders in Oregon wasted no love on their maverick U.S. Senator Wayne Morse, there was just no stopping him. The only real opposition that turned up against him in last week's primary was a lantern-jawed farmer from Deadwood named David I. Hoover, who had never run for office before. Hoover, an ex-deputy sheriff from Los Angeles, implied that Morse was a Communist or worse, and businessmen, lumbermen, doctors backed Farmer Hoover with wads of cash. But when the returns were in Morse had beaten Hoover by a 2-to-1 vote, and seemed virtually...
Paul Douglas, Democrat from Illinois, 58, the ablest, best-balanced liberal Democrat in the Senate and its most impressive freshman in years. He is a humanitarian who does not believe government should do all things for all men, a maverick liberal who also insists on prudent spending ("To be a liberal one does not have to be a wastrel") An ex-professor, and a veteran of Chicago's rough & tumble city council, he has the economist-sociologist mind, a notable capacity for collecting, sifting and appraising facts...
...Lynn White Jr. is a cherubic-looking medievalist who is something of an expert on the 13th Century origins of the mechanical clock. Ever since 1943, when he became president of lively little (enrollment: 800) Mills College (for women) in Oakland, Calif., he has also been something of a maverick in the world of higher education. So far as women are concerned, says he, higher education is a flop. Last week, in a new book called Educating Our Daughters (Harper; $2.50), he told...