"Just imagine!" cried West Virginia's hardbitten, New Dealing Governor Matthew Mansfield ("Matt") Neely, "asking the citizens to choose between Funkhouser and Rush Holt for their Governor!"
In Rush Dew Holt, the brash "Boy Senator" of the '30s who plummeted from fame almost as fast as he rose to it and has since been marking time in the State Legislature, Democrats have a candidate who is attempting a political comeback at the tender age of 38. In Funkhouser ("just call me R.J."), Republicans have a millionaire businessman who has yet to hold a...
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