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...another internecine conflict. National Chairman Ray Bliss, who was put into office to promote unity, is as conscious of the racial problem as the liberals, and has been quietly attempting to solve it. Bliss pushed for the recent appointment of Clarke Reed, a relatively moderate Mississippian, to replace racist Wirt Yerger as state party chairman. "The race issue," Reed is telling G.O.P. candidates, "is dead as a hammer." Bliss also plans to re-establish the National Committee's minorities division, with a Negro as its head...
...most leagues, nine wins out of 46 would be rated an anemic average, but Mississippi has been a one-team league for so long that G.O.P. officials were elated. To Republican State Chairman Wirt Yerger Jr., an efficient organizer who has seeded all of Mississippi's 82 counties with G.O.P. workers, the party's victories represented "a history-making breakthrough, particularly because they were at the grass-roots level." Next year, added Yerger, the G.O.P. will try for all of Mississippi's congressional seats, and will even contest Veteran Senator James O. Eastland's. Said Yerger...
Died. Emerson Wirt Axe, 69, Wall Street securities analyst, manager of the Axe-Houghton group of five mutual funds (combined assets: $300 million), a onetime champion marksman, fencing, judo and chess expert (he once played six simultaneous games blindfolded in an exhibition), who predicted the 1929 crash six weeks in advance as well as the turnabout in July 1932, ran the business from a 40-room turreted castle in suburban Tarrytown, N.Y.; of leukemia; in Manhattan...
...statement drew a fusillade of angry or contemptuous retorts. Snapped Henry Stollenwerck, Republican member of the Texas state legislature: "it sounds like a frantic statement from a man who has lost and knows it." Growled a Denver Republican leader, E. D. Nicholson: "Rockefeller is dead." To Mississippi's Wirt A. Yerger Jr., G.O.P. state chairman, the statement appeared to be "the scream of a drowning man going down for the third time...
...South Carolina. His major method is the careful reading of the "second-rate" literature of the period, which he rightly believes is more likely to yield a reliable impression of the period's deepest social concerns than would its high art. So the popular novels and writings of William Wirt, Simms, Sarah Hale (of Godey's Lady's Book) and a great many others are subjected to a close scrutiny the likes of which their poor authors probably never counted on. One reason this method is so productive is that the authors were by and large men and women engaged...