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...build up a law practice." One day in 1954, Democratic leaders casually invited him to run for the state senate. "They came around looking for someone with an impeccable background, preferably a war hero. I decided I had nothing to lose." He won, at 29 became the youngest state senator in Michigan history. In Lansing, he rolled up a reputation as an earnest, ever-smiling Democrat who never skipped a session and rarely missed a chance to run an errand or cast a vote for Soapy. Party chiefs rewarded him with the Democratic floor leadership in 1956, the nomination...
Died. Joseph Nye Welch, 69, Iowa-born Boston barrister who on coast-tocoast TV gently and repeatedly needled the late Senator Joseph McCarthy into fury during the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings; of a heart attack; in Hyannis, Mass. Seventh and youngest child of English immigrants, Republican Welch worked his way through Iowa's Grinnell College and the Harvard Law School (No. 2 in the class of '17). Joining a venerable Boston law firm, he soon began making a reputation as a lawyer's lawyer, a demon at crossexamination, a suave, subtly histrionic persuader of judges and juries...
...JAMES D. GREY, 53, New Jersey-born head of the $1,625,000 First Baptist Church of New Orleans since 1937, was the youngest president of the Southern Baptist Convention when he was elected in 1951 and 1952. He is a member of the executive committee of the Baptist World Alliance, vetoes dancing but smokes cigars. When Negroes come to his church, he lets them stay but on occasion labels their "kneel-ins" provocative and "an exhibition of egotism." A fundamentalist and evangelist who complains that the modern church microphone is "a gadget of the devil, it's bugging...
...Unequivocally Conservative." By no stretch of the imagination can M. Stanton Evans, the News's new editor, be called a cockeyed left-winger. But he may well be the youngest metropolitan-daily editor in the U.S. He is 26, an age at which many journalists are still writing obits or patrolling the police beat. Editor Evans has never written an obituary or chased an ambulance. Gifted and earnest, Stan Evans is a product of Yale ('55, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude). In college he fell in with a group of students that called itself "The Inter-Collegiate...
...Khrushchev's wife and youngest daughter watched from a box of the Stanislavsky Theater, Maria Tallchief and Erik Bruhn glided through the Black Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake. The troupe also leapt and lassoed its way through the Aaron Copland and Agnes de Mille ballet Rodeo and George Balanchine's abstract Theme and Variations, set to Tchaikovsky music. The Russians admired Tallchief and Bruhn, were politely confused by the unclassic vigor of the American originals, but clapped the entire company back for six curtain calls after their debut...