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...RUSTY MCKELLAR...
...another face don't you think I'd use it?"), hunched (5 ft. 7 in., 142 Ibs.) Clarence Cannon is perhaps the House's most unpopular member, has had fist fights with at least three colleagues; Tennessee's equally terrible-tempered Senator, the late Kenneth McKellar, once threatened to gavel Cannon's head during a conference committee hearing. But he is also the House's hardest-working member (roughly, from 10 a.m. to midnight seven days a week) and one of its ablest. Brought to Washington in 1911 as aide to Speaker Champ Clark, Lawyer Cannon became parliamentarian, began compiling...
...Mason-Dixon. But at vote-counting time in the as-good-as-elected Democratic primary late last week, Albert Gore was renominated with 60% of the total, and swamped Cooper-watermelons, manifestoes and all-under a bigger vote than he dredged up to overturn the late Kenneth D. McKellar...
Died. Kenneth Douglas McKellar, 88, longtime (36 years) hell-raising Democratic Senator from Tennessee, self-styled "Big Uncle" of the TVA; of old age; in Memphis. Relentless in his prejudices, vicious in his vendettas, he used his chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee to browbeat his colleagues into line; popular in his home state, he was a head-bowing yesman to Memphis' late Boss Edward H. Crump, was beaten for a seventh term...
...conflict of interests" is one of Washington's knottiest problems. From World War I, when Senator Kenneth McKellar probed Bernard Baruch's dollar-a-year men, to the Korean war, when Congressman Emanuel Celler investigated "Electric Charlie" Wilson's WOCs, the relations of the legislators to businessmen in Government has been marked by suspicion. Through five emergencies, including two world wars, some legislators have been unable to satisfy themselves completely that the Government, in taking advantage of the skills of businessmen, was not being short-changed somehow...