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Later in the week Stevenson traveled east to Hartford, Conn., where a conclave of top New England Democrats gave him a welcome that warmed his heart. At lunch, with Governor Abraham Ribicoff (who in January pledged Connecticut's 20 Democratic votes to Adlai), Stevenson was assured that he had no cause for worry in New England. That evening, expanding in such a congenial atmosphere, he gave 1,500 guests at Connecticut's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner a sample of the new-style Stevenson fight talk...
...Senator Estes Kefauver and New York's Governor Averell Harriman are "three candidates in search of a crisis," said he. Then, singling out Front Runner Stevenson, Nixon added: "Unless he changes his present course, it will begin to look as if the state which gave the nation Abraham Lincoln, the great rail-splitter of 1860, has produced in Adlai Stevenson the great hairsplitter...
...Symbol & a Symbol. Last week Indiana was just catching up with a classic Jenner tirade delivered in Chicago at a meeting of the bitter-right Abraham Lincoln National Republican Club. In a rabble-rousing outburst against the Eisenhower Administration, Jenner cried that patriotism and courage and the Constitution are going "out of style" in Washington. He called the conduct of U.S. foreign policy "nauseating," and roared that the State Department under John Foster Dulles "talks anti-Communism but silently, secretly carries on a planned retreat before the Communist advance." His question: "Could our fifth column have planned it that...
...Gospel-the unbroken economy of salvation." The first volume has provocative articles by 18 highly diverse writers, e.g., Renaissance Scholar and Jazz Critic Barry Ulanov, Jesuit Philosopher William L. Rossner. Hebraic Scholar Mother Marie Thaddea de Sion, and covers the range of Judaeo-Christian interests from Abraham to Simone Weil. The Bridge offers many paths to better understanding of both the Jewish and Christian heritage. Items...
...Alice M. Ditson Fund, New York, to write a new opera. Gertrude immediately set to work on the libretto, though the first pains of her fatal cancer slowed progress. Virgil's only stipulation, in suggesting 19th century Americana as the subject, was that it have "nothing to do with Abraham Lincoln...