Politics: Hale Fellow at Yale

UNRUH ON WAY. called the Town Crier, newspaper of Yale's Timothy Dwight College. So he was—and Yale did not know quite what to expect of California's Jesse Marvin Unruh (pronounced un-rue), who was traveling East to become this year's first Chubb Fellow.

At 40, "Big Daddy" Unruh is the elephantine (265 lbs.) mastermind of California's Democratic Party. Speaker of the state assembly, he is proud of the way he has manipulated lobbyists into contributing to the party. "Money," he says, "is the mother's milk of politics." Unruh directed Democratic Governor Pat Brown's...

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