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Died. Arthur Capper, 86, onetime governor of Kansas (1915-19), longtime Republican U.S. Senator (1919-49), publisher (Capper's Farmer, Household); of pneumonia; in Topeka, Kans. Starting as a typesetter, Capper became a reporter, began investing, wound up owning two newspapers and eight farm journals (combined circ. 4,700,000) and two radio stations. Politically, he stood for farmers' benefits, isolationism (until the U.N., which he supported), prohibition (he sponsored hatchet-swinging Carry Nation's sweep through Topeka on a bar-smashing tour). He retired from the Senate...
Cabot Lodge seemed to be taking hold of the Ike movement with a steady hand. There will be a main office in Topeka, he said, with branch offices in Washington, New York, Chicago and in the Northwest. Former Senator Harry Darby of Kansas will be president of the organization. Next month, Lodge and Pennsylvania's Senator Jim Duff will go to Europe...
...Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, 13,074 miles...
...meet," the editorial began. It went on to say that the paper thinks Ike is the man for President on this occasion.* In Emporia, Kans., Editor W. L. White (son of the late William Allen White) put his Gazette on the line for Eisenhower, "an essential Kansas character." In Topeka, a central Eisenhower-for-President office was opened. It is expected to become the national headquarters, to give the campaign that Midwest, home-state flavor. In Washington, the Ikemen were preparing to open an office, announce a national campaign committee and start a fund drive within two weeks...
...began with his birth in Topeka, Kans. 52 years ago. Then he recalled the University of Colorado, where he made Phi Beta Kappa, Johns Hopkins, where he took his M.D., interned, and won a prized Carnegie fellowship in embryology. In the '30s, he built up a good practice in Manhattan, where he was on the staff of three hospitals. His marriage (childless) ended in divorce in 1942. That year he moved to Greenwich...