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After seeing Adlai Stevenson's pictures in your story, one would like to ask: "Does one have to become a buffoon before he becomes the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1956 | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...nice of you to have Adlai Stevenson's name on your cover, but why the picture of Milton Berle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1956 | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

Instead of slyly coupling the Maidenform ad drive with any contemplated campaign for Adlai Stevenson, wouldn't it have been more newsworthy to pick up a Timelier peg for Norman, Craig & Kummel, Inc.-the agency that masterminded and launched The $64,000 Question! Nothing wrong with Maidenform, but surely you'd have chosen a different type of account to characterize N. C. & K.'s opposite number and to try to dignify what promises to be a dilly of an ad promotion for the Republican Party. Going to tell your readers about "hard sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1956 | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

Like a breath of clean air in a swamp comes your damning with faint praise of Adlai and the Democratic Party. I did not think that you could stop glamorizing Ike long enough to do this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1956 | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...Smith Myth." The paper was prepared under the supervision of Connecticut's Democratic State Chairman John Bailey, himself a Catholic, who strongly favors a national ticket of Protestant* Adlai Stevenson and Kennedy. It concedes only that "Democratic margins in several [Southern] states might be diminished" if a Catholic were nominated for Vice President. It quickly adds: "It is apparent that a Democratic Catholic vice-presidential nominee, although admittedly prejudices would be stirred, would lose no electoral votes for the ticket simply because a handful of Southerners or Republicans would not support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: CAN A CATHOLIC WIN? | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

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