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...Alabama, California, Idaho, Massachusetts, Mississippi and Oregon) have laws instructing electors to vote for the candidate of their party; in the other 42 states, the law is less specific and electors are bound mainly by tradition. As recently as 1948, the tradition was flouted in one instance. Tennessee Elector Preston Parks, though chosen as a Democrat, claimed his constitutional privilege to vote as he pleased. He cast his ballot for States Righter J. Strom Thurmond, and it was so counted...
Kansas City Confidential (Edward Small; United Artists) combines a "perfect crime" plot with some fair-to-middling moviemaking. An ex-cop (Preston Foster), having engineered what appears to be a foolproof million-dollar bank robbery in Kansas City, takes off for Guatemala with the loot. In the sleepy Central American town, things seem to be even busier than in Kansas City. Foster must cope not only with his accomplices, but also with an ex-con (John Payne) who has been roughed up by the police as a suspect, and who has taken it upon himself to run down the real...
...transformation was accomplished with little trouble on May 13 last spring when the University announced that the first three floors of Apley would henceforth be devoted to tutorial offices for communting students. At the same time Charles Preston Whitlock, associate director of the Bureau of Study Council, was named Senior Tutor of the Commuters Center...
Curtain Call (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC). A new drama series produced by Worthington Miner. The Promise, with Robert Preston, Carol Bruce...
...Allston Burr Senior Tutors have also been appointed, one of them for the Commuters bringing the number of Senior Tutors to six. The new men are William Harold McLain, assistant professor of German resident tutor of Dunster House and Charles preston Whitlock, Associate Director of the Bureau of study Counsel and Apley tutor...