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...nowhere in 1956 with a breathless, near-successful try. with heavy Southern support, at plucking the vice-presidential nomination out of Estes Kefauver's shaken hands. A few months later, after Dwight Eisenhower's election, Kennedy was set to thinking hard when Hubert Humphrey's wife Muriel remarked at a cocktail party: "If Stu Symington is the competition for President, then it's a wide-open race." Kennedy has been campaigning ever since. He has been in every state of the Union except Tennessee, has come to know and be known by some 1,500 professional...
...cream, drew 100-or-so hard-to-reach farmers at a time to shake friendly Humphrey-Freeman- McCarthy hands and hear out criticisms of Republican Ezra Benson (but rarely of respected Ed Thye) in one sitting. ¶ Put on new-style women's tours in which the wives-Muriel Humphrey, Jane Freeman and Abigail McCarthy, old friends, old political pros-went on two-to-three-day outstate swings, shook more hands, won women's votes. ¶ Backed up the campaign teams by unifying all campaign staffs, coordinating congressional candidates and county chairmen, setting up adjoining headquarters...
Morgan's House. In 1953 Beadle married young, handsome Muriel Barnett, a feature writer who still works at her newspaper job on the Los Angeles Mirror-News. She has a teen-age son, Redmond Barnett, whom Beadle has legally adopted. They live on Pasadena's San Pasqual Street near the Caltech campus in a charming, rambling house that once belonged to Dr. Morgan and was sold by his widow to Caltech. The grounds glow with flowers, some of them experiments in genetics but still attractive, and a patrol of eight Siamese cats keeps watch on everything interesting. Beadle...
...MURIEL HASKELL Center of Creative Living Idyllwild, Calif...
...Felicia Montealegre, as his wife, did her captivating best with an absurdly implausible role. Kevin McCarthy was exuberantly athletic and flery in the leading role of the brash and blasphemous wayward son Dick Dudgeon. Martyn Green relished his brief appearance in act three as the sly General Burgoyne; and Muriel Berkson, Edward Finnegan and John Heldabrand provided excellent support. The outdoor theatre had one great advantage: when Dick was about to be hanged (see cut above), the Reverend was able to come charging to the rescue on horseback...