Death Strikes the Democrats

Last week, after a month's bout with virus pneumonia and a heart ailment, former U.S. Senator Blair Moody. 52, of Michigan, died suddenly in the University of Michigan hospital at Ann Arbor. A onetime Washington correspondent for the Detroit News, Democrat Moody was appointed to Arthur Vandenberg's seat by Governor G. Mennen Williams in 1951 and lost it to Republican Charles Potter in 1952. To millions of TViewers across the nation, he was remembered as one of the three rambunctious "Young Turks" (the others: Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and "Soapy" Williams) at the 1952 Democratic Convention.

Moody's death, just two weeks before the Aug. 3 primary, was a severe blow to the plans and hopes of Michigan Democrats. He was the party organization's choice for the nomination to oppose Republican U.S. Senator Homer Ferguson; his death left Detroit Board of Education Member Patrick McNamara, who is at odds with Michigan Democratic leaders, the only candidate for the nomination. Michigan Democrats admitted that McNamara has little, if any, hope of beating Homer Ferguson in November.

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