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A Superb Job. At 77, Walter George is in his 50th year of public service, his 33rd year in the Senate. As the Senate's dean, George holds the respect that the politicians give a man who has been consistently successful in the business of winning elections. As the...
Early Life. The son of a poor Sicilian sharecropper on land owned by Don Luigi Sturzo, Italy's great political priest, Mario Scelba was Sturzo's godchild and protege. At 15 Scelba began politicking in his home-town Catholic youth movement at Caltagirone. He became secretary to Don...
¶ In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Harold Johnson, a glass-jawed light heavyweight who held the title in his. hands for 14 rounds last summer before he blundered into Archie Moore's murderous right, uncorked a wallop of his own, flattened Joe Louis' protege Paul Andrews...
Republicans lost Senate seats in both Nevada and Kentucky. In the former, Democrat Alan Bible, a protege of the late Senator Pat McCarran, defeated the Republican Senator Ernest Brown. And in Kentucky former Vice-President Alben Barkley unseated liberal Republican John Sherman Cooper.
Last week the Nevada Supreme Court (one Democrat, two Republicans) unanimously decided the legal tangle for the Democrats, ordered the balance of the term (January 1955 to January 1957) filled at next month's election. Brown will have to run against former State Attorney General Alan Bible, a friend...