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...Jersey's No.1 bachelor, Democratic Governor Robert Meyner, 48, long an escort of Margaret Truman Daniel, now an uncommitted favorite-son suitor of the White House, had nonetheless switched to a willowy, blue-eyed Stevenson named Helen, 28, a distant relative of Adlai Stevenson. Though Meyner was mum as ever about romance, Helen said they have been "friends" ever since May, when the governor was keynoter of a mock Democratic Convention at Ohio's Oberlin College (prexy: Helen's . daddy, William Edwards Stevenson). Paralleling Helen's legitimate claim of kinship with Adlai, Kentucky's back...
...MINE, one of richest in Colorado Plateau, has been bought by Texas-Zinc Mineral Corp., uranium subsidiary of Texas Co. and New Jersey Zinc. Fletcher Bronson and family originally bought mine for $1,000 as copper prospect in 1946, once turned down $15 million for it. Texas-Zinc is mum on purchase price, but has already started building processing mill at Mexican Hat to handle ore from Happy Jack and other southeastern Utah mines...
...special analyst in 1937, gradually moved him up to vice president in charge of finance. Kelly went to the company straight from Purdue, has been with Goodrich for 31 of his 53 years. He was elevated from manufacturing vice president and head of the tire division. Goodrich spokesmen are mum on who has the edge for the chairmanship; insiders are betting on Keener, who is the third highest paid Goodrich executive (behind Collyer and Richardson...
...government stayed mum. Then London's weekly Observer interviewed Reporter Gerard for two pro-Algerian columns. Said she: "I felt I was watching the birth of a nation. I love my own country too much to blame them for loving theirs." That touched off a French police raid on her home. They ransacked her files, put her through a daylong interrogation. At one point her interrogator demanded: "Where does liberalism end and treason begin?" Then she was charged with "attack against the external security of the state and the integrity of the territory" and put in jail to await...
...night in Portland an alert police reporter for the Oregonian (circ. 230,238) noted that there were suddenly no detectives around police headquarters. Sniffing a story, he demanded an explanation from the police chief. The chief kept mum a secret that was being withheld even from the paper's night city desk: detectives were out guarding the Oregonian's Reporters Wallace Turner and William Lambert and their families while the pair were digging into one of the messiest official scandals in Northwest history...