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...coat and the wing collar. This year's fashions tended toward red neckties, as worn, in descending order of brilliance, by Walter George, Montana's Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver, and South Carolina's Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond...
Under a Bushel. The rest of the fresh man group (average age: 55) does not stand high in national renown. Two, South Carolina's J. Strom Thurmond and North Carolina's W. (for William) Kerr 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...
Until last week no write-in candidate had ever been elected to the U.S. Congress. Last week's write-in winner: J. (for James) Strom Thurmond, 51, whom South Carolina sent to the Senate seat of the late Burnet R. Maybank...
...Thurmond, the 1948 states rights' candidate for President of the U.S., defeated 66-year-old State Senator Edgar Brown in a fight to protest Brown's nomination by the state Democratic Executive Committee instead of by primary election, the chief instrument of democracy in one-party South Carolina. A few weeks ago, Governor James Byrnes endorsed...
...Thurmond, as did most of the state's newspapers. The kiss of death for Brown came when Harry Vaughan told a Washington newspaperman that Harry Truman was for Brown because of Thurmond's 1948 disloyalty to the party (TIME, Nov. i). The vote: Thurmond 139,106, Brown 80,956. After the count, Senator-elect Thurmond renewed a promise: he will resign in 1956 to meet all comers in a proper primary...