Republicans: Mrs. Black for Congress

In suburban San Mateo, Calif., Mrs. Charles Black is known as a busy housewife, civic worker and Republican fund raiser. To the rest of the world, of course, she will always be Shirley Temple, and when she cast her bonnet into the political ring last week there were the inevitable cracks about the curly-haired moppet boop-a-dooping into the U.S. Congress to the tune of On the Good Ship Lollipop. In fact, as the candidate said in no uncertain terms, "Little Shirley Temple is not running. Make it, Shirley Temple Black, Republican independent."

Now a plumpishly attractive, brown-haired woman of 39,...

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