From his office on Capitol Hill, Georgia's Walter Franklin George, 78, scholarly dean of the U.S. Senate, found it hard to believe the news he was getting from home. His friends told him that his rank as a statesman in Washington would never pull him through the Democratic primary in Georgia next September. Every sounding indicated that ex-Governor (1948-54) Herman Talmadge, 42, who had not even announced his candidacy, was pulling far ahead. Unable to face the prospect of a wearing campaign in the searing heat of July and August, George last week made the painful decision: he would...
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