REPUBLICANS: Without Chotiner

With polite finality, the Republican National Committee last week dropped the name of California's Murray M. Chotiner from its roll of 1956 campaigners. A Beverly Hills attorney with a fine talent for astute political management, Chotiner has long been a power in West Coast politics, played key roles in the successful past campaigns of such prominent California Republicans as Vice President Richard Nixon, ex-Governor Earl Warren, Senate Minority Leader William Knowland. But a Senate subcommittee's investigation into the services he performed for an assortment of clients with U.S. Government problems brought him under heavy political fire (TIME, May 14). In answer to a newsman's query, G.O.P. National Chairman Leonard Hall said that the party has no plans to use Chotiner this year, windily explained that the "national committee is now staffed by experienced personnel sufficient to meet the campaign staff problems of both the presidential and vice-presidential nominees."