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...Come in," smiled Adlai Stevenson to newsmen on the morning after, "and have some fried post-mortems on toast." The newsmen, who had followed Stevenson enthusiastically for weeks, exchanged a few fried postmortems, said goodbye and flew off with their portable typewriters, many of them to cover the birth of the new Administration. Most of the speech writers and advisers also left Springfield, going back to making a living in their law offices or newspapers. But what of Adlai Stevenson...
...urgent task of holding the defeated Democratic factions together, Adlai Stevenson is not especially suited by either experience or personality. He is not an organization politician, and the immediate Democratic problem may be an organizational...
...newspaper editors, Eisenhower's victory came as no surprise; in an A.P. poll before the election, U.S. editors predicted that Ike would win by a comfortable margin. It did come as a surprise to many of the campaign correspondents and the pundits, whose own personal attraction to Adlai Stevenson seemed to have fooled them into believing the voters thought that way too. Day after election, reporters and editors settled down to do a competent job of reporting and interpreting the results...
Illinois. Republican William G. Stratton, 38, defeated Adlai Stevenson's lieutenant governor, Sherwood Dixon, by at least 175,000 votes. Dixon took an early lead, but could not hold...
...course of his campaign, Adlai Stevenson had become famous for his anecdotes. None he had ever told was more fitting than the one which he added to his formal concession statement. Someone, he said, had once asked Lincoln how he felt after losing a political campaign. Said Stevenson: "He said he felt like a little boy who stubbed his toe in the dark. He was too old to cry, and it hurt too much to laugh...