POLITICAL NOTES: Ambition in Reverse

Indiana's bounding 39-year-old Senator William Ezra Jenner has made hardly any splash at all in the U.S. Senate. Some weeks ago he decided that he would much rather be a big frog again along the banks of the Wabash. Last week he almost, but not quite, made his backward jump.

Indiana's Republicans, accustomed to fast moves by their bosses, could hardly believe that Bill Jenner would put his hard-driving ambition into reverse. But he came back to the state, politicked at the fish frys, backslapped the hill boys, and swore that the limit...

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