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...Angeles, after a day of listening to his father Adlai on the hustings, 20-year-old Borden Stevenson bolted for an evening of bipartisanship dining and dancing with Dorothy Warren, 21, daughter of California's Republican governor...
...Adlai Stevenson, Unitarian: "Religious faith remains, in my opinion, our greatest national resource ... It is our protection against the moral confusion, which is too often the moral nihilism, of this age. The blight of moral relativism has not fallen destructively upon us ... The mass of our people expect of their public servants probity and decisive distinction between right and wrong in the discharge of their public responsibilities...
...supporting Eisenhower, brushed off the charges as politics. Asked Akers: "Why . . . the long delay? Could [it] be the consequence of the fact that the Sun-Times ceased its support of the present administration in the interval?" Added a taunting headline in the paper's editorial column: TO ADLAI: WE STILL LIKE...
...they have in every election since 1936, the Democrats tried last week to make a campaign issue of the U.S. press. Candidate Adlai Stevenson started things off at a Portland, Ore. luncheon of editors arranged by the pro-Stevenson Oregon Journal. Citing the 90% of the U.S. press which he says is opposing him, Stevenson said that in "the two-party" U.S. there is danger of getting a "one-party press." But he was not worried because "my party has done all right in recent elections . . . People are smarter than many politicians think, and sometimes I suspect that even editors...
Beyond the editorial columns, Adlai Stevenson had few complaints about the way the press has covered his campaign. Said he: "I have been well impressed with the fair treatment accorded me by most newspapers, including most of those aligned editorially with the opposition." At his weekly conference, President Truman also sounded off on the press. He agreed with Stevenson and added: "I don't think it makes much difference what [newspaper editorials say because of] the small amount of political influence the great free press of the United States...