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...down at his desk and, after a few minutes of reflection, jotted down a list of seven names. As he handed the list to Brownell, Ike made it clear that it was not necessarily binding or exclusive. The list: 1) Richard Nixon, 2) Henry Cabot Lodge, 3) Governor Dan Thornton of Colorado, 4) Governor Arthur Langlie of Washington, 5) New Jersey's Alfred E. Driscoll, 6) Senator William Knowland, 7) Harold Stassen. With the list in hand, Brownell hurried over to Eisenhower headquarters on the eleventh floor of the Conrad Hilton Hotel and called a meeting of some...
...meeting, which lasted for three hours, was like a tiny convention, with nominations, arguments for and against candidates, a final vote. A number of the candidates were quickly eliminated: Cabot Lodge could not be spared from the looming battle over his Senate seat (which he lost to John Kennedy); Thornton and Langlie were also needed at home; Alfred Driscoll was a fading political light. Bill Knowland, with both the Democratic and Republican nominations in his pocket, had a sure seat in the Senate and was too closely identified with Bob Taft. Illinois' Ev Dirksen, whose name was also mentioned...
...past year Spenser Lecturers have included such well-known playwrights as T. S. Eliot '09 and Thornton Wilder...
...lectures are not being given this year because none of the scholars invited were able to accept. In past years, however, such men as Aaron Copeland, Thornton Wilder, and E. E. Cummings have given the series. In 1951 Wilder also taught an elementary humanities course...
...Scott, 58, have been governors of their states. Of the seven new Republican Senators, all but one are or have been Congressmen. The one: Colorado's Gordon Allott, 47, whose light, as lieutenant governor, has been hidden under the bushel-basket showmanship and popularity of retiring Governor Dan Thornton. Allott, a liberal Republican and onetime Stassen-for-President booster, scored a minor upset by trouncing ex-Congressman John Carroll. Among the other senatorial newcomers...