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...office in Pennsylvania. She has been re-elected twice, and in 1962 she was the sole Democratic survivor of a GOP victoryalat put Scranton in Harrisburg. When she did not get state organization backing last spring, she entered the Democratic Senatorial primary against State Supreme Court Justice Michael Angelo Musmanno, at the urging of her mentor, Sen. Joseph S. Clark. After months of fighting in the courts, she was declared the nominee with a margin of 491 votes out of a million cast...
MICHAEL A. MUSMANNO...
...said that "Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael Musmanno ungallantly declared that his lady opponent was ignorant [May 8]." This statement is categorically and absolutely incorrect. I never said that Miss Genevieve Blatt was ignorant. I also categorically deny that I ungallantly declared anything. I am proud to say that I have always been chivalrous, and am happy to emphasize I will always be respectful and chivalrous, to the ladies...
...smoke-filled hotel room" to ditch her, refused to bow out. To complicate matters, Roberts, 66, who holds the post of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) Prothonotary,*also jumped into the race. A baggy-pants type who never got past grade school, Roberts scoffed at his opponents' education (Musmanno claims seven college degrees, Blatt three), spoke scornfully if confusedly of "high-kaflutin' " politicians...
...Sleazy Politics." During the campaign, Senator Clark worked hard against Musmanno. A former mayor of Philadelphia, he has little love for the city organization that was controlled for years by Representative Bill Green, who died in December. "Pennsylvania has had enough sleazy politics," cried Clark. "Let's clean...