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...term contracts and less flaunting of the party line has come new acceptance for the I.L.W.U. in the eyes of island businessmen. And the union's sizable vote is sending politicians scurrying high and low after I.L.W.U. support; e.g., this month it helped Democrat John A. Burns easily unseat Republican Territorial Delegate Elizabeth Farrington from the U.S. Congress...
...players too. In Kentucky, Wallace ("Wah Wah" Jones, one of the two "clean" players on the bribe-prone 1948-49 Kentucky basketball team, was smothered by Democratic Incumbent John Watts, and Minnesota's 6 ft. 10 in. basketball All-America George Mikan of De Paul College failed to unseat the Third District's Democratic incumbent, 68-year-old Roy Wier...
Oregon. Ike's ex-Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay, onetime (1949-53) governor of Oregon, was drafted by Eisenhower in an attempt to unseat Wayne Morse, who was elected as a Republican, is now a Democrat. McKay has made real headway, will get an extra boost when Ike campaigns in Oregon. Morse is in trouble...
Right up to election eve, his enemies spared no smear in their efforts to unseat able, 43-year-old Mayor Frank Zeidler of Milwaukee. A few days before the election, supporters of Alderman Milton McGuire, Zeidler's opponent, published advertisements (later repudiated by McGuire) which declared that Milwaukee was infested with marijuana and liquor-crazed juveniles and that "hoodlum mobs" ranged the city "with wolf-pack viciousness." Despite this and a whispering campaign that labeled him a "nigger lover" (TIME, April 2), Socialist Zeidler last week won his third consecutive term by a majority of 23,000 votes...
...Pritchett's expose of James Joyce [Feb. 13] has been long overdue. Joyce was an anti-intellectual. His crime was to unseat reason from its throne. The role of the intellect is to reduce the chaos of the subconscious, and of the stream of consciousness, to order. To surrender that function and retreat to chaos is treason against man himself and the God who endowed him with intellect and will...