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...LOUIS, Sept. 28--Milwaukee's chance to take a commanding lead in the National League pennant battle was ruined tonight as the St. Louis Cardinals combined Ken Boyer's three-run double with some staunch relief pitching by Lindy McDaniel and Larry Jackson for a 5-4 triumph over the Braves...
...primaries, came out of them undefeated, and, in Minnesota last March, very nearly closed the barn door on Adlai Stevenson. It is his appeal to farmers that best explains Kefauver's vote-pulling powers wherever they exist. Many another Democratic politician can point to a farm record as staunch and steady as Kefauver's; Kefauver himself is almost inarticulate in expressing his policies. When asked precisely what he stands for, he is likely to hesitate, ponder painfully, and finally come up with some such phrase as "a place in the sun for the farmer," or "the best interests...
Legworlc. Columnist David Lawrence, a staunch Eisenhower man, thought that, despite the forthcoming campaign hullabaloo, "a preponderant number of citizens have already made up their minds how they are going to vote." But the Chicago Tribune's Walter Trohan contended that the last two weeks of the old 1948 campaign saw "certain" Republican victory "transformed to crushing defeat." and noted that the Democrats have "a hard hitting team" this time. The New York Herald Tribune's Roscoe Drummond thought that Stevenson and Estes Kefauver were off to a fast start, with a big improvement in the Democratic nominee...
Married. Emanuel ("Manny") Shinwell, 71, British Socialist Minister of Defense (1950-51), self-educated ("It's a great handicap") veteran Laborite; and Dinah Meyer, 54, London bank secretary and staunch admirer of Tory Sir Winston Churchill; he for the second time, she for the first; in London...
...Staunch Friend. The Times's high regard for Western journalistic methods is to a large extent the legacy of Kiyoshi Togasaki, a San Francisco-born newsman (University of California, '20) who ran the paper for 14 years until his retirement from active management last January. He was succeeded as president by Shintaro Fukushima, 49, a tough onetime diplomat. Fukushima is one of the West's staunchest supporters in Japan. Says he: "The only way Japan can live is in the sphere of the free world. We'll continue to say that in our editorials...