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...athletic contest of an undecided nature was being whipped up between Iowa's crew-cut Republican Governor Leo Hoegh (pronounced Hoe-igg), a onetime (1928-29) swimming star at Iowa State University, and Michigan's lanky Democratic Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, onetime (1930-33) varsity crewman at Princeton. After Hoegh addressed a savants' meeting at Iowa State, a professor congratulated Hoegh on Iowa State's recent victory (48-45) over the University of Michigan's swimming team, then suggested that Hoegh take on Soapy Williams in a personal swimming match, a benefit affair...
...whether their line for 1956 should or should not follow the moderate tone sounded by Adlai Stevenson. But what would the line be if it were not moderate? New York's Governor Averell Harriman had a try at defining it and so did Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams (TIME, Dec. 5). But both of them came over with a strident quality that reduced their effectiveness. Then, one day last week, the best non-moderate Democratic line to date was strung out by a surprising source: the sachem of Tammany Hall...
...moderately for any one such group. We are for them all the way." "Heartsick Ashamed." By week's end, the Harriman cry had been taken up by some other important Democrats. At a Colorado Young Democrats dinner in Denver, Michigan's ambitious, bow-tied Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams devoted nearly all of a bitterly worded speech to an attack on moderation. Said Soapy: "In candor, I must say that I was acutely disappointed by the 'spirit of Chicago,' the spirit of temporizing with present problems ... I am made heartsick by those in my own party...
...Detroit nightclub one night last week, the floor show was led by Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams and Bridgeport Brass Co.'s President Herman W. Steinkraus. Wearing white smocks, the two bore down on a 12-ft.-by-8-ft. white fiberboard elephant, proceeded to dab the elephant with pink paint. Then, some 550 Bridgeport Brass employees filed past, finished painting the elephant from trunk to tail...
...York State Fair in Syracuse, Michigan's Democratic Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams smiled into news cameras after Iroquois Indians made him a blood brother, crowned him with a plumed headdress and handed him a small pillow picturing him on his way from Lansing, Mich, to the White House...