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Show Legion Orator Honored I (American Legion News Service) Lanny D. Unruh, 17, (right), 1960 national champion of The j American Legion High School Oratorical Contest, with the assistance as-sistance of Sen. Thruston B. Morton of Kentucky (left), Republican Repub-lican national chairman, tries out the gavel used during the GOP's 1960 national Convention July 25-29, in Chicago. The Newton, Kans., youth addressed the opening session of the GOP conclave on Monday morning, July 25, and later covered the convention for United Press International as the wire service's teen-age correspondent. Convention historians believe Lanny to be the youngest person ever to address such a gathering. |