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...graduate of Yale, Daly, 29, worked for the Village Voice, then the News, where he quickly distinguished himself as a gung-ho reporter. Early last year, he was rewarded with a column. Questions had been raised about his reporting in the past, News Managing Editor Bill Umstead told TIME, but "Daly had always defended his stories to my satisfaction." Said one friend: "He was under a lot of pressure. He was trying to hit a home run every...
...university at Chapel Hill, spent 17 years with the Marshall Field & Co. textile empire. where he became a vice president, before taking his first political step in 1952. Then, on a friend's advice, he ran for lieutenant governor, won with surprising ease. Two years later, Governor William Umstead died of a heart attack, and Hodges moved into the executive mansion. Although a segregationist himself, he planned so successfully for school integration (of the token variety) that North Carolina has had fewer legal problems than almost any other Southern state. As Governor, Hodges traveled endlessly promoting new business...
...Germany. In 1952, urged by a business friend, he surprised Tarheel politicians by jumping in, almost unknown, to win the Lieutenant Governor's race. He held office only two years before the Supreme Court handed down its desegregation decision, and soon after, Incumbent Governor William B. Umstead died of a heart attack. Suddenly the tenant farmer's son stood amidst the biggest crisis since Appomattox...
...Economic Cooperation Administration in Germany. In 1952, unwanted and unsupported by the state's Democratic organization, Hodges ran for Lieutenant Governor, traveled 11,000 miles through the state, glad-handed so many voters that he won handily. Two years later Hodges moved up to Governor when Governor William Umstead died, and in 1956 he was easily reelected...
North Carolina: William B. Umstead...