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Last week at the Dachau trial of Colonel Otto Skorzeny, Mussolini's rescuer, the important witness Dietrich was temporarily excused by special agreement between opposing counsel. Reason: he was urgently needed to supervise the harvest at Landsberg prison, where he is now a life-termer and the indispensable head-gardener...
...choice was onetime Governor Dan Moody, who waited outside the chamber nervously chewing a cigar. (When a friend gave him a congratulatory slap on the back, Dan Moody accidentally swallowed the butt, rushed to the drugstore for sodium bicarbonate.) Up rose Alvin J. Wirtz, red-hot Fourth Termer, to propose the name of onetime Governor James V. Allred. His voice was barely heard above the shouting. When the vote came, anti-Fourth Termers had won, 940-to-774. On a second vote, to pledge Texas electors absolutely to vote for the Democratic nominee, Fourth Termers took a worse drubbing...
...strategy has caught on. South Carolina Democrats cagily postponed selection of their electors until after the Democratic convention. Mississippi's Democrats, chafing under New Deal domination, promised a knockdown fight at their convention next week. Said one anti-Fourth Termer: "On the night of June 7 the name of Mississippi will be emblazoned on front pages all over...
...chosen instrument for the purge was one Otha D. Wearin, then billed as a red-hot New-Dealing Congressman, now a red-hot anti-Fourth Termer...
After the committee vote last week, House Freshman Fulbright, unknown even to many of his colleagues, became momentarily the nation's most publicized lawmaker. A deluge of fan mail (10-to-1 in favor) descended on his desk. Interviewers discovered that the first-termer from Fayetteville was young (38), smart (Rhodes scholar), studious (onetime president of the University of Arkansas), aggressive (lacrosse ),"hardheaded (businessman, farmer). Asked how long it took him to write his one-sentence resolution, he replied philosophically: "Fifteen years...