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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Illinois, where Democratic State Central Committeeman John R. Asher, of downstate Paris (pop. 9,700, and 150 miles south of Chicago), announced that he was switching to Kefauver after checking sentiment in 30 downstate counties. Some excited chattering began after Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, who had staked his organization on Stevenson and had gone down to defeat in Minnesota, stopped in to see his "old friend" Kefauver. The old friend strolled out, clasped Humphrey's hand and cried: "Hello, cousin Hubert!" Burbled Humphrey: "Good to see you, brother Estes." Then they threw an arm around each other...
...three of the smallest of these would suffer serious damage. Some of the state's leather glove and belt manufacturers would be hard hit by foreign competition, and imports of cheap foreign china could cripple the pro duction of pottery, one of the principal industries of Red Wing (pop...
...hardy, denim-clad fishermen of He de Sein (pop. 1,328), six storm-swept miles off France's Brittany coast, regard both doctors and tax collectors as meddlesome nuisances. For three hard-lived centuries the Senans have paid no taxes; between last November and February they sent five doctors packing, each with his faith badly shaken in both humanity and the Hippocratic oath. Restless Paris Doctor Jean l'Haridon, 35, wartime resistance fighter and onetime Boy Scout, hoped to avoid the fate of his immediate predecessors; he saw He de Sein as a new world to conquer. When...
Rural doctors are in many ways better off. Dr. David Hoehn and his wife are the only physicians in Holdingford, Minn, (pop. 500), thus "do everything" from obstetrics to gall bladder operations and would welcome more G.P.s. Dr. Charles Savarese is up against harsh hospital restrictions in Washington, D.C., but at Bethesda's Suburban Hospital he can, deliver babies and perform minor surgery. For all the restrictions, says Savarese, "we generalists do pretty well in Washington. This is a specialists' town, and competition among them is terrific...
...Explain (Jeri Southern; Decca). One event in the he-she cycle that is very rarely explored in pop tunes: the philanderer's return. Songstress Jeri Southern gives it a fairly heart-wrenching onceover in a plain but expressive voice, while in the background a baritone sax cries hoarsely...