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...Democratic State Senator Al ("The Rose") Rosellini, 46, an ambitious and compulsively affable Washingtonian, who handed out artificial roses during his campaign, came out of his fight smelling like one. He defeated aging (66) Lieutenant Governor Emmett Anderson, who was the choice of Governor Art Langlie...
...many ways Langlie's exact opposite. Maggie Magnuson (who says privately of Langlie's piety: "We better watch that guy at Easter time") is a cigar-puffing, Cadillackadaisical, free-roaming bachelor. Like Langlie, he has a Scandinavian background. But there the similarity ceases. A Washingtonian who knows both sums up the difference: "Art Langlie is the right-living, stern-conscienced, Sunday-go-to-meeting Scandinavian. Maggie is the ever-loving, good-time-Charlie Scandinavian come out of the woods on Saturday night for fun and sociability and a yearning to spread joy. Langlie is the voice of political...
Actually, Evelyn Peyton Gordon can go through most Washington receiving lines on the basis of background alone. A fifth-generation Washingtonian, chic, fiftyish Evie attended schools all over the world, graduated from Manhattanville College, made her debut in Washington 28 years ago and has been a staunch cave dweller ever since. Starting as a society reporter for the Washington Post in 1927, she later moved to the tabloid News, where she decided to stay because "it was a small paper; they didn't have nine managing editors and all that nonsense." Because she is so popular, News editors...
...seven-week-old steel strike began to paralyze civilian and arms production last week, one Washingtonian suggested a new kind of seizure to end the dispute. Why not seize Presidential Assistant John Steelman and Price Boss Ellis Arnall and ship them back home to Arkansas and Georgia? The idea had some merit. Steelmakers, in the firm belief that they had a promise from Steelman for a $5.20 boost in prices, had come close to agreement with the union on wages and a form of union shop. Then Steelman withdrew the promise...
...Columnist Walter Lippmann: "This is the Washingtonian model of the presidency. It is the style of the Washington who managed for so long and in a most critical period of our history to keep both Hamilton and Jefferson in his cabinet...