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...goofy dragon; its tail is dollar bills, its hide is plated with nickels for scales. As its pink wings flap, its head lolls over the façade with a kind of maniacal sloth. Above this symbol of Capital, in the tower, sits the old five-and-tenner Frank Winfield Woolworth himself, observing the seagirt isle with the proprietary air of King Kong...
Charles R. Winfield Palacios, Texas...
TENNESSEE'S RAY BLANTON, 44, a roughhewn, former Democratic Congressman in the populist tradition, found himself matched against one of the few attractive young Republicans to emerge in 1974: Lamar Alexander, 34, a lawyer who had helped Senator Howard Baker and retiring Governor Winfield Dunn win elections. Alexander's main problem turned out to be general dissatisfaction with Dunn's Republican administration, which had doubled the size of the budget to $2 billion and presented the state's eastern region with a prison instead of the medical school it had wanted. All this, plus a strong...
...race, he is the last one to show concern. Seasoned political observers are scratching their heads over his studied coolness in the face of possible defeat. But they figured that he must know what he is doing. He managed the successful campaigns of both Senator Howard Baker and Governor Winfield Dunn. Two weeks before Alexander won the primary for Governor, he was considered to be running a poor third. His forte is catching...
...rarely mentions any more that he was a White House aide to Richard Nixon in 1969. A graduate of Vanderbilt and New York University Law School and a former newsman, Alexander coordinated Tennessee Republican Howard Baker's Senate race in 1966 and was campaign manager for Tennessee Governor Winfield Dunn in 1970. Now he is a candidate himself for this year's G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination. Chairman of the state's Council on Crime and Delinquency, Alexander has made a point of announcing, "I'm going to disclose every single contribution I get although...