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Pennsylvania's Republican Governor William Scranton has turned down some 4,000 speaking invitations since last November. But, by way of paying a political debt, he was happy to travel to Boston last week. Scranton was grateful for a 1962 Pennsylvania fund-raising appearance on his behalf by Massachusetts Republican Henry Cabot Lodge. At that same time. Lodge's son George was running unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate against Teddy Kennedy-and piling up an $85,000 campaign deficit. By appearing at a $100-a-plate dinner last week. Scranton helped raise $65,000 against that deficit...
Orphans' Reprieve. Now enters Pennsylvania's Republican Governor William Scranton, owner of a Labrador retriever. (As a child, his wife had had a pair of Irish setters, but they were shot by a farmer.) Scranton spotted the story in a Pittsburgh paper, interrupted a series of legislative planning meetings to phone an aide and ask, "Can't we do something about this?" Indeed they could. Within hours after the Governor's query, a special assistant attorney general went into Allegheny County Orphans Court, which handles the probate and interpretation of wills, and served notice that...
...that Miss Capers' dogs will not be executed. There is a new file in the Governor's office now, marked "Dogs Saved from Death." It is stuffed with dozens of messages, most of them offering warm and loving care to Brickland and Sunny Burch. As Governor Scranton said: "I'm sure Miss Capers would feel very good if she knew how many people have now offered to provide her pets with good homes...
Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton, explaining that this was the 19th time he had moved himself out, deadpanned: "Pennsylvania has no candidate for the presidency, unless Senator Hugh Scott wants to run." Said Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater: "I'm running for re-election to the Senate-and that's all I'm running for." All these denials presumably cleared the way for New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who just smiled and stepped up his criticism of the Kennedy Administration...
...inaugural address. Pennsylvania's Scranton told of a troubling remark made to him by a young man during the campaign: "I can't for the life of me figure why anybody would want to be Governor of this state." And even as Scranton was taking the oath of office from State Supreme Court Chief Justice John C. Bell Jr., 70, who served 20 days as Governor in 1947, the problems of being Pennsylvania's chief executive were recalled by seven other ex-Governors. Their bitter sweet memories, as published in the Philadelphia Bulletin...