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Chicago and Milwaukee. Texas Governor Allan Shivers (who hopes to replace Administration Stalwart Tom Connally in the U.S. Senate) was waiting in a five-gallon hat to welcome his visitors. Fifty thousand shirt-sleeved citizens cheered as the MacArthurs were driven into the city...
...runs Comic-Strip Detective Dick Tracy. Therefore, when Tracy moved into a palatial home, Trib Reader William J. O'Neil asked an obvious question: How could Tracy afford such a fine house on a detective's pay? Wrote Reader O'Neil: "The Tribune having been a stalwart defender of 'clean government' ... we feel sure that you will launch an immediate investigation of this matter." The Tribune's only comment was an enigmatic headline over the letter: HE BUILT IT OUT OF HIS REWARDS...
...Eugene Millikin, jovial, conservative G.O.P. stalwart, showed surprising strength in defeating Fair Dealer John Carroll in Colorado. ¶ Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin and Homer Capehart of Indiana, three conservative Midwest Republicans, beat their Fair Deal opponents. Three members of the G.O.P.'s progressive wing, Oregon's Wayne Morse, New Hampshire's Charles Tobey and Vermont's George Aiken, also won handily...
...Alabama, retired Rear Admiral John G. Crommelin, the man who touched off the Navy's revolt against unification, was running as an independent against Administration-stalwart Senator Lister Hill, and doing his best to blast the Truman Administration clean out of the water. He was conceded the votes of some diehard States' Righters, but no chance...
Playing without the services of powerful fullback Bill "The Bull" Roberts, defensive stalwart Charley Curtis, and left guard Dick Price, the Tribe floundered to a 16 to 14 loss to a vastly underrated Lehigh at Honover last Saturday. The three injured stars now appear ready to go, according to Tuss, and they should give the Indians the depth was missing last week...