Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.National Affairs: Sweetheart of Dauphin County
At first glance Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman John Grain Kunkel (pronounced Koonkul) is a very ordinary looking fellow. It is almost impossible to imagine Congressman Kunkel wearing a burnoose, strumming a guitar by moonlight, or joining the Foreign Legion to forget Dorothy Lamour. He wears spectacles, which would probably keep him out, anyhow. Congressman Kunkel is 48, a bachelor, 6 ft. 1 in., has grey hair, is shy, wears quiet clothes, and looks as though he enjoys reading railroad timetables.
But Congressman Kunkel electrifies the Republican women of Dauphin County (Pa.). And Congressman Kunkel has never flinched when faced with masses of his...
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