Word: mcnamara
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Last week Michigan buzzed with candidates for public office. Republican Senator Homer Ferguson graced a Bay City fish fry. His Democratic opponent, Patrick McNamara, until recently a local leader of the pipe fitters' union, gazed with admiring eye on a St. Clair County plowing contest. Democratic Governor G. Mennen Williams was out exercising the charm that had won him the title (bestowed by a Republican) of "the Liberace of Michigan politics." His Republican rival, Lawyer Donald Leonard, politicked from Owosso to Kalamazoo...
Democrats are depending on unrest caused by layoffs in the Michigan auto industry. Says Patrick McNamara: "The No. 1 issue in the race is the upset of our economy under the Republicans . . . The simple truth is the Republicans promised the voters too much and a reaction has set in. It's a case of broken promises." And what does Candidate McNamara promise? Merely to work for 100% of parity and a federal minimum-wage law requiring $1.25 an hour...
...death, just two weeks before the Aug. 3 primary, was a severe blow to the plans and hopes of Michigan Democrats. He was the party organization's choice for the nomination to oppose Republican U.S. Senator Homer Ferguson; his death left Detroit Board of Education Member Patrick McNamara, who is at odds with Michigan Democratic leaders, the only candidate for the nomination. Michigan Democrats admitted that McNamara has little, if any, hope of beating Homer Ferguson in November...
...spectacular shots of Venice, Tivoli and Rome is a feeble little plot about a trio of American girls who spend a tedious 102 minutes getting their men: Dorothy McGuire wins Novelist Clifton Webb (wearing a henna rinse); sultry Jean Peters gets a sure-enough Italian, Rossano Brazzi; Maggie McNamara captures Prince Charming in the person of Louis Jourdan. Why any of the six is so set on marrying any of the others is never satisfactorily explained...
...winning the Winthrop Sargent competition, Henry Steele Commager, Jr. '54 will receive $150. Commager's essay was on "The Imagery in Antony and Cleopatra." Honorable mention went to Leo F. McNamara...