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...MILLIGAN...
...last week's primary, "Bob Johnson," as he was listed on the ballot, won in a walk with 119,000 votes, trouncing the runner-up, Democratic State Chairman James M. Milligan Jr., by 22,000. Astonished but happy. Winner Johnson announced that he would bow to the will of the people and serve as Florida's only male representative on the 108-member Democratic National Committee (one man and one woman from each state, district and territory...
...Francis Powers finished high school in Grundy, Va., got a B.A. at Milligan College in Tennessee, and enlisted in the Air Force. In 1951 he was accepted for aviation cadet training, got his wings a year later. But even during the Korean war, when he was a full-fledged jet fighter pilot. Powers never saw service overseas. The Air Force did not seem to hold enough excitement for him, and in 1956 he resigned "to seek employment with civilian industry...
...Malcolm Sargent produces a package (Elsie Morison, Marjorie Thomas, Richard Lewis, James Milligan; the Huddersfield Choral Society; the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Angel, 3 LPs, mono and stereo) that lacks the fire of Beecham, the vocal glories of some of the Ormandy passages, emerges as painstaking rather than impassioned. Perhaps the best performance of the crop is furnished by Hermann Scherchen (Pierrette Alarie, Nan Merriman, Leopold Simoneau, Richard Standen; the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and the Vienna Academy Chorus; Westminster, 4 LPs, stereo), which is marked by some lovely, light-textured choral passages, a translucent orchestral sound and a movingly...
Died. Maurice M. Milligan, 74, tenacious U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri (1934-45), who toppled the corrupt Pendergast machine, sent Boss Tom Pendergast to jail for income tax evasion; in Kansas City, Mo. Milligan struck the entrenched machine at its vitals: the ballot box. He convicted 259 Pendergast lackeys for fraud in the 1936 election alone. He later lost (1940) a bitter primary race for U.S. Senator to Pendergast Protege Harry Truman, who as Vice President in 1945 closed Milligan's career-by blocking his reappointment...