Word: merwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...congregation in the Central Christian Church in Boone, Iowa, and said earnestly: "The conscientious Christian should be profoundly concerned with the affairs of human endeavor and with man's efforts to organize a just and honorable society through political action." That, back in 1956, was the Rev. Merwin Coad's way of announcing his candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives. He won, and off he went to Washington-where, last week, Democrat Coad, 36, was up to his eyeglasses in trouble...
Coad's troubles had been building up for quite a while. They came into public view only after Clark Mollenhoff, the deep-digging Washington correspondent for the Des Moines Register, got fascinated by Coad's marital affairs. Last March, it seemed, Merwin Coad had traveled to Double Springs, Ala., and got a quickie divorce from his wife Delores. Then he returned to Washington and, in May, married his administrative assistant's former wife, a blonde ex-beauty queen (Miss Ogden, Utah...