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Estes Kefauver admitted yesterday that former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson is the leading candidate, but claimed "My strength will increase and I will win the presidential nomination at the Democratic Convention...
...often become next year's headlines.*What Jeane told Ruth: Ike will be re-elected next year, and "he will run the Government like you would run a big business," delegating many duties to ease the strain on his heart. His "Assistant President" will be Thomas E. Dewey. Adlai Stevenson's timing is all wrong; he is a political dead duck. New York's Democratic Governor Averell Harriman also will never be anything more than a guest in the White House. Same for Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver, who might be Vice President some time...
Face the Nation. (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Newsmen interview Adlai Stevenson...
...Adlai Stevenson, the week before Christmas was anything but merry and bright. It began with a somewhat embarrassing discussion of his personal religious beliefs, prompted by the fact that Stevenson, a Unitarian, had quietly joined a Presbyterian church. After some Unitarians accused Stevenson of deserting his church, four pastors-two Presbyterians and two Unitarians-made public a letter to him asserting that he can belong to both churches without "inconsistency...
...Sudden Need. In midweek, Adlai Stevenson found a sudden, anguished need for prayer. As he walked into his office in Chicago's Loop one morning, he was told that his youngest son, John Fell Stevenson, 19, had been seriously injured in a highway accident. On his way home from Harvard, where he is a sophomore, John was driving his father's 1955 Chevrolet sedan on U.S. Highway 20, just east of Goshen, Ind., with three fellow Harvard students as passengers. As he drove over a hill, a truck, passing another at 50 m.p.h., smashed head-on into...