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Added another reader about Senator Stuart Symington (Nov. 9, 1959): "I must protest the green eyebrows, inflamed eyes, mud under his chin and applesauce in place of hair...
Defense: Missouri's Stuart Symington, onetime Truman Air Force Secretary, who has been working up a Defense Department reorganization plan; Washington's Henry ("Scoop") Jackson; General Dynamics Chairman (and former Truman Army Secretary) Frank Pace. Pundit Joe Alsop predicted the picking of Byron ("Whizzer") White, Denver lawyer, All-America football star and national chairman of Citizens for Kennedy...
...Missouri, Representative Charlie Brown, who managed Stu Symington's unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, had no better luck with his own campaign for reelection. The winner: Republican Durward G. Hall, a handsome, conservative surgeon who. in the Ozark phrase, is a "gravel bar speaker...
...Truman Library. "Hello, Mr. President," said Kennedy. "How are you?" Beamed the 76-year-old Truman: ''Come on in here, young man. I want to talk to you alone.'' With a hand on Kennedy's elbow, Truman steered him away from Traveling Companions Stuart Symington and Democratic Chairman Henry Jackson for a 30-minute private talk. Obviously enjoying himself, the ex-President then led Kennedy to the library's auditorium, dominated a press conference attended by three dozen newsmen who had followed Kennedy west. Did Truman, they asked, still consider the Los Angeles convention...
...carpings are not likely to interfere with Wadsworth's Senate confirmation as U.N. delegate. Republicans are eager to have him take over at the U.N. so that Lodge can get on to politicking. And on the Democratic side, Wadsworth has a champion in Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, who is married to Wadsworth's sister...