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...from municipal judge to Cleveland mayor to Ohio Governor to U.S. Senator-a triple assist that Lausche himself acknowledges-and also helped elect present Health. Education and Welfare Commissioner Anthony Celebrezze to the Cleveland mayor's chair. >-Scripps-Howard's biggest newspaper, New York's World-Telegram and Sun, is a pale and lackluster product of three mergers that fails to give the chain an effective New York voice. Running in an afternoon field of second-rate competition, the World-Telegram features such Page One pap as a series of blurbs about the paper's rejiggering...
...before his TV speech, the President sent Barnett a telegram demanding to know "this evening" whether the Governor and his officials would "cooperate in maintaining law and order." Barnett telephoned the President at 7:30 p.m. and evasively asked for more time to frame his reply. At 10 p.m., he called Attorney General Kennedy and said that he could not agree to the President's demands...
...oldest man ever to serve in the U.S. Senate, spent his 95th birthday sorting through stacks of greeting cards, gifts of German beer and vintage Rhine wines for his well-stocked cellar. Then, after a brief celebration with old friends, the venerable Green dictated a congratulatory birthday telegram to another Democratic patriarch: Arizona's Carl Hayden, 85, the oldest man now serving in the Senate...
...another move, the Liberal Union sent a telegram to Democratic Senatorial candidate Edward M. Kennedy '54, urging him to participate in Saturday's debate between Republican George Cabot Lodge '50 and independent H. Stuart Hughes. The Union has not as yet taken and on the election...
...that time, Kennedy was 29, a freshman Congressman and an eminently eligible bachelor. Durie was 30, separated and soon to be divorced from Desloge. The two were linked romantically in at least one society column. Wrote the New York World-Telegram's Charles Ventura on Jan. 20, 1947: "Jack (John F.) Kennedy, who won the Navy's highest award for heroism by swimming through a sea of flame to rescue two of his PT boat crew, has just been voted another outstanding decoration. Palm Beach's cottage colony wants to give [him] its annual Oscar for achievement...