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Last week, rallied by Producer-Author (Sunrise at Campobello) Dore Senary, they were out in force. Henry Fonda, Vincent Price, Phyllis Kirk and a cast of dozens roamed the convention floor freely (while many delegates had trouble getting into the hall at all) to sell Adlai with glamour. Outside, Actress Mercedes Mc-Cambridge, dressed in the costume of a Golden Girl hostess, helped light fires un der ragtag groups of everyday Steven-sonites ("We'll storm that place!"). Over the years, the proper Stevensonians had saved their loftiest political scorn not for those bedrock Republicans, Adolphe Menjou and John...
...with admirable propriety. Frankie wore his hairpiece, snarled at not more than one photographer, and offered to sing a solo at the convention (offer declined). Pee-tah wore conservative grey suits and tried not to be conspicuous (Den Mother Shirley MacLaine, a kook in her own right, was for Adlai, so she did not count). Naturally, there were gala parties. Frankie sang new words to All the Way: May I be emphatic? I'm Italian Democratic- All the way. I know it sounds cutting, But we've had enough of putting-Night...
...Adlai Stevenson wrote off his abortive try for the nomination with a one-sentence example of his good humor: "A funny thing happened to us on the way to the nomination tonight . . ." Harry Truman, who had lambasted Stevenson over the years as chronically unable to make up his mind, got it back when Stevenson was asked about Truman's on-again, off-again attitude toward attending the convention: "The trouble with Harry is that he's indecisive." Added Actor-Director Jim Backus: "It is a disgrace that Harry Truman is not coming. It's the same...
...mighty and famous, Sahl got the surprise of the week when his angriest foe turned out to be his TV sponsor, California Millionaire Bart Lytton (Lytton Savings & Loan Association). A Kennedy backer.* Lytton simmered in the control booth as Sahl and guests enthusiastically reviewed the merits of Adlai Stevenson on the air, finally barged into the studio and woofed into the microphone that the show was not "a Stevenson rally." Complained Sahl: "I have been accused of being everything except partisan. I have never been part of a group large enough to be called a minority." The sponsor later apologized...
...moves into the second half of his campaign, Jack Kennedy starts off with what is undoubtedly the best press of any presidential candidate in modern history. Thus an old Democratic lament is finally laid to rest. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Adlai Stevenson all raised repeated charges, imagined or not, against "distortions" suffered at the hands of the so-called "one-party'' press. For "one party,'' everyone was supposed to read "Republican."' But since announcing his candidacy last January, Kennedy has not done much complaining about his press treatment...