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Virginia (12): Patriarch Harry Byrd has spoken no word for Kennedy, last week posed smilingly for pictures with speech-making Republican Eisenhower. Other state politicos are working hard for Kennedy, but it is still NIXON...
When his family's longtime friend Theodore Green heard of his doubts about beating Republican Nominee Raoul Archambault Jr., 39, former assistant director of the U.S. budget, the old patriarch (93) set Claiborne straight: "Tush, young man, you don't have to worry in this state...
Newspapers rallied to the commissioner, forgave him his transgression for being overtired, and left hapless Bob Wagner with his ultimatum running out. At the last minute, former Senator Herbert H. Lehman, a fellow Democrat and patriarch of New York Jewry, offered a solution. He praised Commissioner Kennedy as a man of integrity, courage and high character. The whole controversy, he said, had been exaggerated out of all reason. Well, said "I'm-the-Mayor" Wagner after a conference, it's up to the Board of Rabbis: "They asked for an apology." And everybody in the city understood that...
...World of Carl Sandburg, if not everybody's world, has long been a popular one. Over the years Sandburg, who was first a poet of the pioneering Midwest school, has sifted down into a people's poet, a patriarch with a song bag on his shoulder and a new song on his lips. He can be pithy or philosophic, can speak from the heart while poking the funny bone, and speak tenderly of babies and bad women and sad men, and speak up for dreams, and speak out against war, and be often crackerbarrel and occasionally caustic. America...
Died. Wilhelm Pieck, 84, patriarch of the German Communist Party and since 1949 East Germany's first President; of a heart attack; in East Berlin. A survival artist who deserted the Kaiser's army in World War I, but returned to Germany in 1918 to become a charter member of the German Communists' central commit tee, Pieck escaped to the Soviet Union the following year, when the committee's two leaders were slain (said one of them, Rosa Luxemburg: "Pieck was my most faithful, but also my most stupid student"), fled to Russia again before World...