POLITICAL NOTES: And a Pamphlet, Too

As if his uphill campaign for California's governorship weren't enough of a load, U.S. Senator William Fife Knowland had to have a pamphlet too. At least his well-meaning wife, Helen, thought so. So she distributed some 500 copies of a 30-page diatribe against A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther, Meet the Man Who Plans to Rule America. Then she asked about the rate for 10,000 more pamphlets, writing Author Joseph P. Kamp that his was "a powerful message which could actually swing the pendulum in California if it could be gotten into the...

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