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...Superior Court judge, returning in 1957 to a lucrative law practice in order to support his big family (nine children and stepchildren). When Governor Robert Meyner compiled a list of 26 suitable successors, Hughes was not even on the list. He was finally hand-picked by Democratic Boss Thorn Lord and other party leaders only after several better-known possibilities had declined...
...perennial thorn in the flesh of high-church U.S. Episcopalians is the official name of their denomination: the Protes tant Episcopal Church. It is bad enough, they feel, that Roman Catholics so often get away with calling themselves plain Catholics, although anyone who says the Apostles' Creed identifies himself as a member of the Holy Catholic Church.* But to carry the label Protestant, which goes back more to Martin Luther than to the fuss with Henry VIII, seems to them unjustly imprecise...
...height--the school committee. At his first attempt, just before the war, he had five kids and was driving a truck for the Watertown Arsenal. He polled 1,000 votes. Netting 2,000 in his second attempt, he finally triumphed in 1952 with 3,000 votes, to become "a thorn in the side of the entire CCA (Cambridge Civic Association). Everything I said or did, I was opposed by the CCA bloc. Then, in the campaign for re-election, I ran way ahead of all competitors--Harvard professors, M.I.T. professors, and veteran politicians" Immediately after his first election, he "raised...
...kick-off after Sullivan's score, Yale right halfback Ken Wolfe showed why he was chosen Ivy bask of the week last week and why he will be a definite thorn for Harvard on kick-off and past returns. Taking the ball on his own goal line, he faked a reverse to halfback Lou Muller and snaked his way 53 yards up the right side of the field to the Princeton...
Case, having overcome rebellion of the G.O.P. right wing in last April's primary, is like Lord waging a cultured above-it-all campaign. Physically, he is much more attractive than the high-domed and weathered Thorn Lord, but he faces many pitfalls: resurgent Democrats, a large Catholic, pro-Kennedy vote, simmering revolt in the local G.O.P., rising unemployment. He barely mentions Dick Nixon in his campaigning...