POLITICAL NOTES: The Manicured Fistful

As a practitioner of the art of making headlines, Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver has few equals in the political world. Before the Democratic Convention of 1952, he turned a television reputation as a crusader against crime into a good run for the presidential nomination. This year he is hard at work again, and not doing badly, with the same old formula.

Since last winter, Estes has put his well-manicured Tennessee hand into a whole fistful of investigations. As the head of a subcommittee charged with investigating juvenile delinquency, he has traveled to...

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