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...their political hold on Louisiana. Governor Earl prepared to appoint a friend-probably a Monroe oil millionaire named William C. Feazel-on condition that the appointee would not run for the office after the interim term expired. In November, having achieved the Senate's 30-year minimum age, Nephew Russell would run, with every chance of election...
Died. Erskine Gwynne, 49, dilettante Paris publisher of the expatriate era; after long illness; in Manhattan. A great-nephew of the late Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, he brought out the Paris Boulevardier in 1927, attracted to the magazine such contributors as Michael Arlen, Noel Coward, Ernest Hemingway...
...Crimson last year, and most of the same powerful assembly will be back tomorrow to try again. For another, Frank Collyer is reputed to be the best stroke to be sport himself on the waters of Lake Cayuga for many a long year. What's more, he's the nephew of the greatest stroke Cornell ever had, whatever that may signify. For a third, this crew has elready defeated Syracuse by a sizeable margin...
...replace him, Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington chose Spaatz's second in command, General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, 49. A favored nephew of Michigan's influential senior senator, Gen. Vandenberg rates as an able, affable officer, long on administrative ability, short on personal force...