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...Wallgren]." A Seattle industrialist playing dominoes turned and frowned disapprovingly until someone whispered: "That's Nick Bez. You know, fishing." The frown promptly dissolved into an understanding smile...
...Communist-line Representative Hugh De Lacy, backed by James Roosevelt and the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, reached the tape a stride ahead of political chameleon Howard Costigan, backed by Anna Roosevelt Boettiger. Hardworking, New-Dealing Senator Hugh B. Mitchell, appointed by Governor Mon C. Wallgren to fill his own unexpired term in the Senate, had little trouble winning renomination. Biggest worry of both Democratic incumbents: an unusually heavy Republican primary vote...
Next up will be Washington's poker-playing, New Dealing Governor Mon C. Wallgren. Wallgren is already getting the welcome mat out at the governor's mansion. Said he: "The suite that Truman occupied will be redone to suit Charlie's personality. After all, this is the greatest timber state in the Union...
Rummaging in the Governor's closet, he appropriated a battered hat, an exclamatory sweater knitted by Vancouver Island Indians. He won a $5 bet from Governor Wallgren that his own suit was the older (it was bought in 1939). He rose early to stroll on the wide lawns, sometimes played the piano before breakfast. Going to the Capitol, he sat down at an organ under the lofty, music-amplifying dome, launched into Beethoven's Minuet in G and the Blackhawk Waltz. Then, with the Governor and Press Secretary Charlie Ross, he sang Peggy O'Neil and Melancholy...
Next afternoon he went up Puget Sound to a famed stretch of salmon water off Anderson Island. No fisherman, the President got into a skiff with a crew of willing advisers: Governor Wallgren; Nick Bez, a burly Yugoslav who operates Alaskan fishing fleets; and Costa Lazzaratti, the Governor's excitable Italian cook. Despite them he hauled in nothing but a sharklike dogfish. But the wind was cool, the day bright, and a nearby fisherman presented him with a 12-lb. king salmon...