POLITICAL NOTES: Who Won, Aug. 12, 1946

Primary results last week: ¶ In Tennessee, cob-nosed Kenneth D. McKellar, premier porkbarreler and 77-year-old dean of the U.S. Senate, won renomination over Edward W. Carmack Jr., endorsed by C.I.O. and the Nashville Tennessean. Neither McKellar nor renominated Governor Jim McCord needed the usual thumping 40,000 majority delivered by Boss E. H. Crump's Shelby County machine, but they got it anyhow. McKellar also swept bloody McMinn County.

¶ In Alabama, industrious John Sparkman, House Majority Whip, missed a clear majority over four opponents by a whisker (less than 300 votes), in a...

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