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...Kefauver has his own kind of advantage. In his corner are Miami Lawyer Henry Sinclair, a shrewd but small-bore politician, and a crew of enthusiastic amateurs who have already stolen at least one march on Adlai's pros: they organized Dade County (Miami) down to the block-captain level while the Stevensonites marked time. In a close race Dade County, which casts more than 20% of Florida's vote (and which Kefauver carried nicely against Georgia's Senator Richard Russell in 1952), could make the difference...
...possibilities are: C. Douglas Dillon '31, First Marshal of his 25th year class and Ambassador to France; architect Frank Lloyd Wright; author Chiang Yee, who will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa address; Barnaby C. Keeney, new president of Brown; Henry Ford II; Edward R. Murrow; attorney Joseph N. Welch; Sinclair Weeks '14 will also be in town; retired military figure Mathew W. Ridgway; and around Harvard retiring Louis C. Bierweiler deserves consideration...
...book reviewers would realize that they are confirming C. Wright Mills's suspicion that America is well on its way to hell when they give, in the April 30 issue, nothing but cheers to Franchise Sagan's "tale of extramarital fun" and nothing but sneers to Upton Sinclair's "temperance tract." How can the American people be other than "morally bankrupt" when the men who help to mold opinion (such as TIME'S book reviewers) operate under the code that naughty is nice, good is glum...
...Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks will not call a press conference until he can get off an optimistic statement," wrote Hearst's jocose Columnist George Dixon last week. "This has led the press to refer to his seminars as 'cheery outlooks.' " When newsmen gathered in Weeks's office later that morning, Weeks was still chuckling over Dixon's dig. As usual, the Secretary was also brimming with optimism. Said he: "I think the outlook is still cheery...
HIGHER OIL PRICES are on the way, says Sinclair Oil Corp. President P. C. Spencer. Though producers have held prices fairly stable for almost three years, the cost of finding oil and the cost of refining it are rising so fast that the industry wants a flat 20% hike in the price of crude oil, with commensurate price boosts for all refined products...