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...Elizabeth the Woman (of the Year), said f.y.i., TIME selected for its cover 42 men, six women, the U.S. taxpayer, the eye of television fixed on the political conventions, the Eisenhower-Nixon combination on the election issue, and Artist Artzybasheff's incredible space pioneer. One cover story, on Adlai Stevenson (Jan. 28, 1952), gave much of the nation its first good look at the man who was to become the Democratic presidential nominee. Inside TIME's covers were special reports on atomic medicine (TIME, April 7), The Fighting, Waiting Eighth Army (TIME, Dec. 22), and human relations...
...week's most notable visitor was Adlai Stevenson, fresh from his Manhattan speech (TIME, Feb. 23). Before going to the White House, Stevenson accepted Eisenhower's offer of full official assistance for the forthcoming Stevenson world trip by getting a morning's briefing at the State Department. Then, in a two-hour meeting, the man who won the presidency and the man who lost it sat down to lunch (guinea hen, wild rice), swapped reminiscences of the campaign, chatted as warmly as old friends. Stevenson was impressed by the hospitality: he was beginning to like Washington, "perhaps...
...Adlai Stevenson's charge that the new Administration might become the "big deal" because of big-business domination, Eisenhower said at his press conference: the President hasn't time to get into political arguments based on semantics; he does not think he should have to answer the charge that he is not concerned with all of the 158 million Americans...
Tanned by the Barbados sun, the wear & tear of November's electoral defeat apparently erased by a restful holiday, Adlai Stevenson returned last week to the political arena. The setting for his first major address since the Eisenhower victory was the Grand Ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. There, before 1,700 Democratic bigwigs assembled for the $100-a-plate Jefferson- Jackson Day dinner, Stevenson assumed the mantle of leader of the constructive opposition...
...Give Adlai Stevenson an unofficial voice in Senate debates...