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Edward R. Murrow has been named director of the United States Information Agency. Television gets better all the time, don’t you think?

When Kentucky’s Senator Thruston Morton was re-elected Chairman of the Republican National Committee at its meeting in Washington, January 7, there was considerable sentiment for a change— especially among the conservatives, who identify Morton with the Eisenhower-Nixon regime now folding its wings, and the campaign defeat. But the conservatives still lack a leader universally acknowledged, as Taft was in his later years. Since there was no agreed substitute, Morton will hang on a few months more. Insiders say that he must agree to go quietly before June, or face the likelihood of being rudely booted.

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Edward R. Murrow has been named director of the United States Information Agency. Television gets better all the time, don’t you think?

When Kentucky’s Senator Thruston Morton was re-elected Chairman of the Republican National Committee at its meeting in Washington, January 7, there was considerable sentiment for a change— especially among the conservatives, who identify Morton with the Eisenhower-Nixon regime now folding its wings, and the campaign defeat. But the conservatives still lack a leader universally acknowledged, as Taft was in his later years. Since there was no agreed substitute, Morton will hang on a few months more. Insiders say that he must agree to go quietly before June, or face the likelihood of being rudely booted.