Other political stirrings last week:
¶ In Missouri, four-time State Auditor Forrest Smith, who helped himself get re-elected by reminding voters that he was the man who mailed out the old-age pension checks, won the Democratic nomination for governor. Always a big vote-getter, plodding, affable Forrest Smith was rated a good bet to pull more votes in Missouri than Harry Truman. His Republican opponent: hefty, cautious Murray Thompson, operator of a small-town furniture store and speaker of the house.
¶ In Kansas, where victory in the Republican primary is about equal to election,...
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