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Despite his stocky football player's build, pugnacious Chuck McKinley danced, pranced and pirouetted around Wimbledon's center court last week like a souped-up Nijinsky. The gallery loved it. What had been shaping up as the dullest Wimbledon tournament of the century was suddenly infused with zest and excitement, and the credit belonged entirely to the 20-year-old, 5-ft. 8-in., 163 lb. dynamo from St. Louis. "Chunky Chuck looks like a rock but moves like a dragonfly," said a British newsman. Marveled the London Times: "He plays most of the time with both feet...
Back to the Pacific jetted General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 81, to commemorate the 15th anniversary of Philippine independence. Among the stops on his itinerary: Corregidor, which he was forced to flee in 1942; Fort William McKinley cemetery, which honors the thousands of his troops who did not get away; Leyte beach, where he fulfilled his "I shall return" vow 2½ years later...
...reverence, thank you, Mr. President, for the farm message you sent us today." Some other remarks were less ecstatic. "Nebulous and rather complicated." sniffed Louisiana's Allen Ellender, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. "A do-it-yourself kit for every farm commodity." hooted Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois: the executive branch "could completely divest itself of all responsibility." Argued Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken: "If farm groups can write their own tickets, some will ask: Why not let labor or industrial groups do the same thing?" Moving Again. The President's farm...
...drama in First Family comes from the interplay between two families, the colored McKinleys and the white Charleses. Mr. McKinley is a sedate, scholarly classics teacher. He has a self-effacing sister and a gangling, precocious, twelve-year-old son named Scotty. The family dynamo is Rachel - a cool, lovely, relentless wife and mother. She intends to put her shoulder behind the integration issue, and her shoulder consists most ly of chip. As Rachel puts it: "I don't mind disturbing people a little. It's my idea to make them think about what they're like...
Died. Walter F. Brown, 91, lawyer and longtime Republican National Committeeman from Ohio who stumped the state for McKinley in 1891, reached the peak of his political influence as Herbert Hoover's Postmaster General; in Toledo...