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...West Virginia, 34-year-old Republican Cecil Underwood, onetime teacher of biology and now vice president of Salem (W. Va.) College, upset favored Democrat Robert Mollohan. Underwood, a six-term member of the state house of delegates, campaigned hard and sharp against the statehouse machine, the so-called "flower fund" to which state employees allegedly had to contribute 2% of their salaries, and the state road commission, which, he claimed, made "more millionaires of equipment dealers than it has good roads...
Died. Vito Marcantonio. 51. six-term Congressman from New York's East Har em; of a heart attack; on a rainy street in Manhattan. Tough, fiery little Vito fought his way up from East Side poverty, hung on to the fluttering coattails of Fiorello La Guardia, succeeded him in Congress in 1934 on a Republican-City Fusion ticket. In his district, Vito was an indefatigable favordoer; in Washington, a slavish follower of the Communist Party line. Finally beaten by a 1950 Democratic-Republican-Liberal coalition, he still remained powerful and popular in his district, drew 20,000 mourners...
Overnight, Democrats were plunged into deepest gloom. Meeting in Rochester's Hotel Seneca last week, convention delegates glumly went through the motions of approving the ticket their bosses had chosen for them. Their nominee for governor was to be Representative Walter Lynch, an able but colorless six-term Bronx Congressman with an undeviating New and Fair Deal record. Facing the press, State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick bravely discussed his qualifications...