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...Cordell Hull, who left the Senate in 1933 to become Secretary of State, was the last elected Tennessee Senator who did not owe his seat to Boss Crump. For one year (1937-38), George Berry, an anti-Crump appointee, served in the Senate, was beaten in the following primary. Stalest Crumpet of all: 77-year-old Kenneth McKellar, a Senator for 31 years...
Some political parties might consider a crashing defeat at the polls a good excuse for taking a back seat for a while. Finland's Communists, made of sterner stuff -and with sterner bosses-were more than willing to deny themselves that luxury. It would be downright unpatriotic, suggested Communist Minister Hertta Kuusinen-Leino last week, to let anti-Communists run the country just because they had won the election (TIME, July 12). "We would do better outside the government as opposition," the lady minister confessed, "but we put the country's interests first and therefore insist on taking...
...going to beat hell," remarked an American MP later. A U.S. traffic patrol, consisting of a jeep and an armored car, promptly raced in pursuit. After a two-mile chase they overtook the limousine, leveled machine guns at it. Frantically the Russian driver pointed to the back seat and screamed: "Marshal! Marshal...
...registered, not surrendered), nor the men themselves. They were standing by in the swamps of Central Luzon to see whether the government would go ahead with the land redistribution the Huks demanded. In his maiden speech before Congress (where he at last assumed the seat that he had won in 1946), Taruc revealed that Appomattox was not exactly what he had in mind. Said he: "I did not come to surrender, but to cooperate . . . The word 'surrender' is poison to the crystal cup of better relations...
Radio flashed the convention news to most of the country, but radio plainly had a back seat: network telecasts were on the air for 40 hrs. 20 min. more than network broadcasts. And most televiewers agreed (including a vice president of a rival network) with the New York Herald Tribune's John Crosby that "LIFE and NBC . . . easily ran off with the honors, both in programs and in a technical sense...