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Among the likely Democratic candidates: U.S. Representative Dale Alford, an ophthalmologist who became a career segregationist; ex-Governor (1949-53) Sid McMath, a moderate who prides himself on his progressive attitudes on most issues; Attorney General J. Frank Holt, also a moderate; former State Senator Marvin Melton, onetime president of the Arkansas Chamber of Commerce; Kenneth Coffelt, an out-and-out segregationist who has promised to "expose the scandals in the Faubus Administration." Even Arkansas' moribund Republican Party hopes to present a serious candidate, and G.O.P. National Committeeman Winthrop Rockefeller, younger brother of New York's Nelson Rockefeller...
...changed his name to Fred Allen. The name Edythe Marrener is at least as interesting as Susan Hayward. Why change Thelma Ford to Shirley Booth, Jeanette Morrison to Janet Leigh, Patrick Barry to Barry Sullivan, Edward Flanagan to Dennis O'Keefe, Kim Reid to Kim Stanley, Virginia McMath to Ginger Rogers, Julie Wells to Julie Andrews, Helen Beck to Sally Rand, John Hamilton to Sterling Hayden, Diane Belmont to Lucille Ball, Phyllis Isley to Jennifer Jones...
...McMath said he did not know of a liberal candidate who would oppose Faubus in the Democratic primary next summer, although he expressed hope that there would be such a person...
...McMath denied that he had any political plans at the present time. It has been widely rumored that he would run against Senator McClellan...
...Southern leadership was able to get a moderate civil rights bill because they convinced the opposition that a gradual, moderate bill would fulfill the intent of the Supreme Court decision," McMath said...