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...votes, and Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machine is purring at peak efficiency. Downstate, the Republican tide is at low ebb. G.O.P. Governor William Stratton, stuck with a scandal-seared administration, split the party by insisting on running for a third term. Traditionally Republican newspapers in Peoria, Moline, Pekin and Rockford have endorsed the Democratic candidate for Governor, Otto Kerner. Republicans say their polls put Nixon ahead 54-46 and Bobby Kennedy groans, "We're behind." But Democrats may yet take Illinois...
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CHRISTOPHER DREW Bradley University Peoria...
Died. David Blair Owen, 51, onetime president of Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., who resigned in 1952 after a New York judge sent five Bradley basketball players to jail for throwing a game but fingered Owen as the true culprit for fostering "illegal recruiting, subsidization of athletes, evasion of scholastic standards, corruption of the athlete, the coach and the college official"; of a beating suffered when he was robbed and stripped in a cheap Washington, D.C. hotel...
...Symington testimonial dinner in Missouri-with Brown as the featured speaker and most favored veep. ¶In Norman, Okla., oil-rich Oklahoma Senator Robert S. Kerr (himself a Democratic presidential hopeful in 1952) was quick to announce his support of Colleague Lyndon Johnson's candidacy. ¶ In Peoria, Ill., Lawyer Stephen Mitchell, Democratic National Committee chairman during Adlai Stevenson's 1952 campaign, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Illinois, even though he faces a head-on collision with the state's Democratic boss, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, or Daley...