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Indiana (26): All were bound to Primary Winner Kefauver on the first ballot. The probable post-Kefauver count: 20 for Stevenson, five for Harriman, one for Symington...
...began to suspect that things had got out of hand. Said Brannan: "I would rather debate issues on an intellectual plane." Replied Thornton in a letter to Brannan: "I will have no more to say to a preliminary fighter until he has proved himself." That same day the Denver Post took editorial notice of the uproar. To the cow-milkin', wheat-shockin', cotton-pickin' and calf-ropin' contests, noted the Post, one more competition should be added: "Bull-throwin...
...Senate: ¶ Pigeonholed in a Post Office subcom mittee a House-approved bill to increase postal rates by some $430 million a year, e.g., from 3? to 4? per ounce for domestic first-class mail, 6? to 7? per ounce for domestic air mail, sizable in creases for second-class mail...
Last week "Tex" Colbert announced a top-management reshuffle to beef up Chrysler's faltering salesmanship. Into the newly created post of administrative vice president went crack Salesman Edgar Charles Row, 60, president of Chrysler Corp. of Canada since 1951, who had boosted Chrysler's share of the Canadian market from 16.2% to 27.8% in the past five years. Ohio-born Ed Row, an old company hand (since 1932), will have wide powers in his new post, be second in command to Colbert, who remains the chief executive officer. To prepare the company further for what he called...
Died. Francis Albert ("Bee") Behymer, 86, veteran (since 1888) reporter and feature writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch whose "cornfield journalism" has been a Midwest institution for 68 years; in Alton, Ill. A little (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) wiry man with unruly grey hair, "Mr. Bee" went to the P-D ten years after its founding (1878) by the first Joseph Pulitzer, became a standard prop at back-country murder trials and hillbilly feuds, stamped his copy with his own brand of homespun humor. ("Methuselah lived 969 years and all they said about him was that...