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PORTRAIT OF PROF.. GMBRAITH
The Harvard Brain Truster as a Politician

his ivory tower to announce his
presidential choice.
Invariably, he chose the DEM
ocratic candidate" says Mr.. GAL
braith, but his constancy did not
detract from the excitement.v
Wilson, a former Princeton pres
ident, and Roosevelt with his
brain trust both brought many
professors into government as ad-
visors and bureaucrats, but the
most significant change took place
in the last eight years when pro-
fessors began working directly
with the respective parties as ac-
tive campaigners, speech writer's
and even curbstone hand shakers.
In ProcticoI Politics
Mr.. Galbraith, for instance, was
rushed out to the Democratic Con-
vention in Los Angeles to help
buttonhole members of certain
delegations that happened to be
loaded with young intellectuals. A
Kennedy man from the outset of
the campaign, he proudly recalls
swinging a half-vote in the North
Dakota delegation that under the
unit rule turned out to be crucial.
Born on a farm at Iona Sta
tion in Ontario, Canada, Mr.. Gal
braith got his first taste of unin-
hibited American politics when
some friends who had crossed the
border to help with the wheat har-
vest reported that they had twice
voted for AL Smith.
"Their unbridled enthusiasm"
he says, probably rubbed of on
me. Anyhow, I've been a Demo-
crat ever since"
Trained in agriculture and eco
nomics at Toronto University, Call
ifornia and Cambridge, he began
his academic career as an instruc-
tor at Harvard, where as a tutor
at Winthrop House he first met
the Kennedy brothers, Joseph jr.
and John F.
He made his first big splash in
government service as deputy ad-
ministrator in charge of price con-
troll for the Office of Price Admin
istrator in the early days of
World War II. Mr.. Galbraith bat
tened down the price hatch so
tight that the resulting howl from
businessmen brought about his
resignation in two years and made
him never-to-be- forgotten figure
in Washington.
Mr.. Galbraith eventually re-.
turned to Harvard as a full pro-
fessor, increased in fame and for
tune as best selling author, and
Joined Thomas K. Finletter in the
singular task of tutoring Adlai
Stevenson in things that every
president-to-be ought to know.
Once a month at f1ve-hour ses-
sions in Mr.. Galbraith's book
lined Cambridge living room or in
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Mr.. Finletter's Manhattan apart
ment. distinguished lawyers, pro-
fessors, writer's and politicians
gathered to prepare "positional
papers" on a wide variety of is
sues. These resulted in the famous
"big black books" that Mr.. Ste
venSon carried along on the cam
paign as source material for
speeches, policies, anecdotes, even
ad Ibis. And the group itself even
tually evolved into the Demo-
cratic Advisory Council, which
now is doing the same thing, but
on a greatly expanded scale, for
all Democratic candidates.
Senator Kennedy became a
member of the council last year,
but has never been a very active
participant, at least not the way
Mr.. Stevenson was. Mr.. Kennedy
as a Senator already has a vast
working knowledge of many areas
of the Federal Government that
escaped Mr.. Stevenson as Cover
nor, and hence has no need to
play Liza Doolittle to Galbraith
and Finletter's Professor Higgins.
Rarely" says Mr.. Galbraith,
"have I known anyone with more
capacity to ask questions and
more inclination to use the results
to make up his own mind"
Enjoys the Stump
Mr.. Galbraith. who came out
early for Mr.. Kennedy when he
became convinced (wrongly as it
turned out) that Mr.. Stevenson
would not run again, still num-
bers Mr.. Stevenson among his
closest friends in the world" and
keeps his picture over the man
tlepiece.
AS Harvard professor, he nev-
en- has missed a class or lecture
because of politics. AS a stump
speaker for Mr.. Kennedy, he en-
joys himself far more on the
political platform than on the
lecture platform, because it gives
you a chance to be aggressive in
way that would be out of place
in a classroom"
And as a professor politician,
he is far happier giving his own
speeches than writing someone
elSe's.
"Ghosting speeches." he con-
cludes, sis the worlds most diff
cult literary form. You must at all
costs avoid confessing authorship.
You must be prepared to work all
day and most of the night on a
speech draft that the candidate
may not only never use but never
even see. Boise, Idaho, the cam
paign directors may conclude, is
not the place for exegesis of the
problems of natural resources.
Rather, let the candidate talk on
the place Of women in the home.
1t can be pretty frustrating"
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RESULT COULD Be IN DOUBT
BY ROBERT X. WALSH
Star stan Writer

Moss. not ivy. covers the 172-
year-old political walls Of the
Electoral College.
Yet that venerable--or vacuous
institution for choosing Presi-
dents and Vice Presidents has
weathered scores Of attempts to
abolish it and to institute q mod
ern method Of direct popular
election.
The college Is so deeply sunk in
tradition that some voters might
be pardoned for thinking they will
cast ballots specifically for Vice
President Nixon or Senator KEN
nedy on November 9. Officially
they win have to wait until Jan-s
uary 8 before either candidate is
formally declared elected.
Actually they will vote for the
1860 class Of 537 members to be
enrolled in the Electoral College.
The candidate who gets q major
ity, at least 269, Of the votes Of
those electors viii be the next
President Of the United States.
The Electoral College, Of course,
Is not q seat Of learning despite
q considerable need to improve
general public knowledge Of its
operation and history. Nor is It
entirely q "collegium" in the clas-
sic sense Of being q group Of per-
sons with the same pursuits and
privileges. It is really collec-
ton Of colleges in the separate
States but its members never meet
all together. And the alumni have
little to cheer about either for
their alma mater or for their own
anonymity.
Like so many other provisions
Of the Constitution. the Electoral
College was o compromise. The
Constitutional Convention Of 1857
in Philadelphia had wide differ
ences Of opinion on whether the
new Nations chief magistrate
should be elected by direct vote
Of the people or by Congress or
by State legislatures.
The Role Of the Stotes
The Electoral College plan as
finally worked out looked like q =,
good thing at the time. It left to
the States the right Of determin-
ing how their respective electors
would be chosen, such as by direct
popular vote or by the State leg
islature or by districts within the
State. It tried to give small and
large States fairer deal. 1t sought
to preserve the separation-of-
powers concept by preventing
Congress from having too much
Of hand in the selection Of Pres
idents.
And, while assuring q large
measure Of popular voting, it at
tempted to screen" the process
by letting q special group Of
electors from each State do the
actual voting for President and
Vice President, supposedly on the
basis Of individual judgment and
diScernment.
With all its out-dated and OUT
moded features. however. the
Electoral College still functions
despite cumbersome machinery
and its even more dangerous
tendency to thwart the popular
will. At least 100 attempts have
been made in the form Of con-
gressional bills or proposed con-
stitutional amendments to change
or eliminate the college. But ex-
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IRON CURTAIN

No TV coverage has been given
the election campaign in Russia or
any Of the Iron Curtain countries.
The USIA has sent films Of the
debates to all United States EN-
hassies in these areas for private
showing.
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Political Campaign
On 7 eIevision Abroad

news programs. For q few minutes
twice Q week Italian viewers are
shown scenes Of the campaign.
Italian interest In the United
States election is somewhat re-
duced because important munich
pal elections are taking place
throughout the country on Novem-
ber 6.
GERMANY
The foreign policy debate be-
tween Kennedy and Nixon will be
broadcast in full two days later
with q German translation
"dubbed-on." Little TV coverage
will be given to domestic affairs
in the United States campaign.
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LATIN AMERICA

The USIA is supplying q special
election night kit to satisfy the
intense interest in many countries,
particularly Brazil. This kit in
cludes Aim clips, maps and charts,
to clarity the results as they are
received.
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The Electoral College Makes II Official

Twelfth Amendment adopted
largely as a result Of the Jeffer-
son-Burr tie vote in 1900, and still
further by the Twentieth Amend
ment ratified in 1898, the proceed
ure is as follows:
Election in House
II no candidate for President
had a majority of the electoral
votes, the House Of Representa-
tives would Immediately" choose
a President from among the three
with the highest totals. The votes
would be taken by States and each
State would have one vote repre-
senting the majority vote Of the
States delegation.
AS a safeguard against possible
walkouts or absences In State dele
cations, the Constitution provides
that q quorum for this purpose
shall consist Of a member or mem
bers from two-thirds of the
States" A majority Of all the
States would be necessary for a
choice.
If the House failed to choose
a President in this way the Vice
President would "act as President
as, in the case Of the death or
constitutional disability of the
President" The Vice President
would be chosen by the Senate if
no candidate for Vice President
had majority of the electoral
votes.
The Senate would elect one
"from the two highest on the list"
Senators would vote individually.
A quorum would consist of two
thirds Of the 100 Senators, or 81.
A majority Of the LOO, at least 81,
would be necessary for a choice.
The Constitution originally stip-
ulated that if no candidate had
an electoral vote majority the
House would choose President
from among the five highest on
the list. The candidate having
the second largest number of
electoral votes would be Vice
President. In case of a tie the
Senate would choose the Vice
President.
Just when the Electoral Col
lege' seems most thoroughly dis
credited and spineleSs it is likely
to put on show of academic
freedom by threatening to throw
the election into Congress.
No Third Party
Any prospect Of such a display
this year is fading. There is no
appreciable third party. There
are few signs of a major revolt
against either of the two major
parties despite rumblings in the
South against the Democratic
platform and the Kennedy-Joh
son ticket.
Vice President Nixon or Sen
ator Kennedy conceivably could
become President by obtaining a
majority Of the electoral votes
without getting majority of the
votes of all the people who go to
the polls November 8. This has
happened several times in the
Nations history.
Moreover, there is nothing in
the Constitution to prevent
Democratic or Republican elector
from voting for the opposite ticket
or for someone else. This also has
happened several times.
In Alabama four years ago a
Democratic elector refused to cast
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his ballot for Adlai Stevenson or
Dwight D. Eisenhower. He voted
for Walter P. Jones. In 1948 the
'Dixiecrat," or States Rights
Democratic Party, got a total Of
80 electoral votes for its preSi-
Dental and vice presidential can
didateS, Senator J. Strom Thur
mond Of South Carolina and
Fielding Wright Of Mississippi.
In 1914 opponents Of a fourth
term for Franklin D. Roosevelt
talked in several Southern States
of a movement to "free" the
Electoral College of any real or
assumed obligation to 60 down
the straight party line. That
movement got nowhere. It has
gained ground in recent years
especially in State legislatures
that specifically ruled they should
be unbound and unpledged.
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ITALY

The Italian TV ran five minutes
OF the first TV debate and will fit
parts Of the later ones into regular
Evening star., 1960-07-12
Copt. Grimes, 81, Former
Commander of DESTROYER

| officer of the USS Welles while
the ship carried out neutrality
patrol duties in the Panama
and Caribbean areas.
For his work as officer in
charge of the Interior Com
munication and Fire Control
Section of the Bureau of Ships,
he received the Legion of Mer-
it in 1945.
His last assignments prior to
his retirement in 1856 were
as chief of staff and aide to
the United States shipbuilding
representative in Paris. and a
post with the Bureau of Ships
in Washington.
Since his retirement he had
been vice president of the Elec-
trio Storage Battery Co.
Capt. Grimes was a member
of the American Institute oi
Electrical Engineers, American
Society of Naval Engineers, Ac-
coustical Society of America
American Society of Naval and
Marine Engineers, American
Physical Society and Army ano
Navy Club.
He leaves his wife, Frances
Sellers. of Jenkintown.
Services will be at IL am
tomorrow at the South Post
Fort >Myer Chapel. Services will
be in Arlington Cemetery.
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Capt. Clifton G. Grimes,
USN, retired, 81. former COM
manding officer of the destroy
er USS Welles, died Saturday
at Philadelphia Navy hos
pital. His home was in Jenkin-
town, Pa.
A native of Gearing, Iowa,
Capt. Grimes was a 1925 grad
uate of the Naval Academy.
His first assignment was aboard
the battleship Pennsylvania.
After he received his master
of science and electrical engi-
neering degree from Columbia
University in 1882. he was as
signed as an electrical officer
aboard the USS New Mexico.
He received letters of commen-
dation for his development OF
a fire control instrument which
improved the accuracy of main
battery turretS and his devel-
opment Of a portable air puri-
flying apparatus.
Capt. Grimes was assigned
to Washington in 1885 for a
four-year tour of duty. as head
of the design branch of the
Interior Communications and
Fire Control Section of the
Navy Department.
He was reaSsigned to Wash
ington in 1910 after he had
served a year as commanding
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Boris Brodenov Dies;
Voice Script Writer

Boris Brodenov, SIS. a script
writer for the Voice of America
and an actor. in La Marotte
French Theater here. died Of
cancer yesterday at his home.
He lived at 1929 Grant road
NV.
A native of Minsk, Russia.
Mr.. Brodenov had been active
in the theater since boyhood.
He had studied drama while
attending the Technical Uni
versity in st. Petersburg (now
Leningrad).
He served as a lieutenant in
the Imperial Russian Army in
World War I but fed to Brno
in Czechoslovakia during the
Bolshevik Revolution.
He Joined the PAlliance
Franchise productions in the
Czech National Theater as an
actor and director in 1922 while
working for a degree in me-
chanical engineering at the
Institute of Technology. He
received his degree in 1924 and
then worked as plant di-
rector and chief of an engi-
neering Office in a Brno man.
ufacturing firm. He also wrote
technical articles for European
magazines in Russian. French
and Czech and lectured at the
University Of Brno.
When war again broke out
in Europe, Mr.. Brodenov and
his Czech-bo wife, Ida, an
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opera singer whom he met in
the Czech National Theater,
fed the German invaders,
They came to the United States
in 1910.
Although Mr.. Brodenov
worked as a craftsman and de-
signer in the defense industry
during the war, his fair fol
the dramatic was not forgot
ten. He participated in various
productions of the Theater Of
Russian Drama and the Czech
Opera, which had been founded
by his wife. as an actor and
director. He was naturalized
in 1945.
In 1s45 and 1916, Mr.. Bro
denov was an actor on the
Russian programs of radio sta
ton WWRL in New York.
In 1947, Mr., Brodenov joined
the Voice of America as a Rus
sian language script writer and
commentator. specializing in
technical and scientific sub
jects. He was transferred tc
the Washington Office of the
VOA in 1854,
AS he had done with each
successive move, Mr.. BrodenoV
soon associated himself with 9
theatrical group after his ar
rival in Washington. In 1855
he joined the La Marottet
French Theater group here. 9
company composed almost en-
tirely of French-b actors.
During the next three years
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WiIIium Gleason,
With Trust Firm;
Retired Sergeant

william j. Gleason, 70; an
employe of the National Saw
ings & Trust Co. for 20 years,
died Sunday at Walter Reed
Hospital after a brief illness.
Mr.. Gleason Of lot East
Wayne street, Silver Spring
was born in London, and came
to the United States as a young
man. He served in the Army
until 1910, when he retired as
a master sergeant. Mr.. Gleason
was then employed in the safety
department of the National
Savings 81 Trust Co. for 20
years.
Mr.. Gleason was a member
of the Rosensteel Council o1
the Knights of Columbus in
Silver Spring. and was mem
ber of the Holy Name Society
of St. Michaeps Church in Sill
yer Spring. In the early 1905
Mr.. Gleason was an outstand-
ing athlete in the Washington
area playing baseball, football
and basketball.
Mr.. Gleason leaves his wife
the former Katherine O'Con-
nor of the home address. He
also leaves three sons, Walter
r. Gleason and Richard o
Gleason, both of the home
address, and Capt. William P
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Roman family. He was Or
dained a presit in 1897 and for
the next Is years was secretary
to cardinals. then he filled the
chair of rhetoric in the Pontif-
ical Urbano College. Later he
was appointed a clerk in the
Secretariat of the Congregation
for the Propagation of the
Faith.
In 1917 he was sent to India
as apostolic delegate, with the
rank or archbishop. Because of
the German submarine war
fare he took a four month
sea voyage around the Cape of
Good Hope to reach his post.
Late in 1919 he was made first
apostolic delegate to Japan,
where he remained for a year
and a half. He was recalled
to Rome and served as a sec
retary for the Congregation for
Propagation of the Faith until
Pope Plus XI sent him to
Washington in 1928.
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ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
Science Shrinks Piles
New Way Without Surgery
Stops Itch Relieves Pain

New York, N. Y. (SpeeiaI) -
For the first time science has
found a new healing substance
with the astonishing ability to
shrink hemorrhoids, stop itch
ing, and relieve pain =. without
surgery.
In one hemorrhoid case after
another, very striking improve
ment" was reported and veri-
fed by doctors observations.
Pain was relieved promptly.
And, while gently relieving
pain, actual reduction or re-
traction (shrinking) took place.
And most amazing Of all -
this improvement was main
tanned in cases where Doctors
observations were continued
over a period of many months |!
In fact, results were so thor
ough that sufferers were able
TO make such astonishing state
ments as"Piles have ceased to be
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All this, without the use Of
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Cardinal Fumusoni- Biondi.
Delegate Here, 1o23-33

VATICAN CITY, July IL
(AP). - Pietro Cardinal Fu-
masoni-Biondi, 87-year-old pre-
feet of the Congregation for
Propagation Of the Faith, died
today.
The prince of the Roman
Catholic Church had jbeen in
poor health for seveMl years.
His condition. aggyVated by
his advanced yearE worsened
several weeks ago.
He suffered an internal hem
orrhage today.
He was apostolic delegate in
. Washington from 1923 to 1893;
and Travelled extensively in the
United States. He was named
a cardinal in 1888. Pope Plus
XII soon afterward appointed
him prefect of the Congrega-
ton for the Propagation of the
Faith. y
Cardinal Fumasoni Blond
came of an artistocEatiC
Evening star., 1960-07-12
Mrs. Joe Byrns,
Widow of 1885
House Speaker

Mrs. Julia Woodard Byrns,
81, the widow Of Joseph w,
Byrns, Speaker of the House
of Representatives in 1885,
died yesterday in Nashville,
Tenn.
Mr.. Byrns was born in Nash
vile. Tenn, and was married
there in 1898. Her husband was
first elected to Congress in 1903
from the Fifth. District of Ten
nessee. He became Speaker in
1885. and died in 1886.
She leaves one son. Joseph
w. Byrns, jr.. of Daytona
Beach, Fla. He was elected to
the House from Tennessee in
1898, and served one term.
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he appeared in such plays as
Moliere's Doctor in Spite of
Himself" Jean Anouilh's Ring
Round the Moon," and Ami
Ami"
Mr.. Brodenov leaves his wife.
Of the home address. who is a
music and voice teacher at
Mount Vernon Seminary and
Junior College. She is also a
stage director for operatic pro-
duction for the D. c. Recrea-
ton Department.
The family requests that ex-
pressions of sympathy be in the
form Of contributions to the
American Cancer Society.
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Gleason who is stationed in
Germany.
Friends may call at the
Warner E. Humphrey Funeral
Home. 8434 Georgia avenue,
Silver Spring. A requiem mass
will be offered at $3.50 am.
Thursday at st. Michael's
Church, Silver Spring, with
burial in Arlington Cemetery.
Evening star., 1960-07-12
Author Retiring

BOSTON, July IL (AP).-
Thornton W. Burgess. who has
written $4,000 stories for chill
dren and books which sold rs
million copies, is retiring at the
age of S6. his publishers. Little.
Brown g. Co., reported yes
terday.
Evening star., 1960-07-12
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Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-04-13
Mass MeetinG
In Protest OF
School Action

The failure of the Cb,dbnurp
school Local Committee Ia re-
new Principal Feed Mcclure :
contract for the I96O-6I school
year resulted in mass meet
ing lin the school SUNDAY i'm
protest tn the boards decision
Approximately rs patrons of
the school IN sympathy with
The principal voted to ci1cu-
late a petition that REQUESTS
the board members To rrsciri
their order that Mcclure is
not To be rchircd.
According To one spectator
the mass had as their main
criticism the complaint thai the
community is being ruled by
minority group. No SUPPORT
ers of the local school board
were present.
Paul Avant. a town commits
Slon"r. acted as chairman of
me meeting. Avant stated II
am not here in the capacity of
town commissioner. but in
stead as the father of three
children" Avant asked Prin-
c.p'! Mcclure if he woulG ac-
ccpt contract for next wear
Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1960-04-13

roads. ON the second count. he
shall serve from 3 To 5 years"
Both sentences are Sis
pended on the condition that
the prisoner pay the costs If
the court. and be placed under
probation for a period Of five
years 'Hc judge ordered.
The Judge indeed felt that
ihc boy deserved a second
chance. And friends came forth
and promised the challenged
youth their backing. II was
probably the first time anyone
had ever shown any faith or
affection for him.
His probation officer is Fi
Wall whose ofiinc is located IN
columbus County's court
hry.r
Said Will OF the srb :cc.
'Niih'm two weeks the nov
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