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...F.D.R. But Roosevelt was against everything that Hearst now stood for. When he realized how things were, Hearst furiously reversed his editorial guns; his papers were ordered to print it "Raw Deal," even in reporting New Dealers' speeches. But it was an anachronistic war; the landslide against Alf Landon (1936), Hearst's personally blessed candidate, was a measure of the decline of the Hearstpapers' editorial force...
Earthy Aura. Eisenhower men are wasting no time. Eisenhower-for-President headquarters are already staked out in Kansas, longtime home of the Eisenhower family. Ex-Senator Harry Darby of Kansas City, astute, wealthy G.O.P. national committeeman, who took over control of the state Republican machine from Alf Landon, is in charge. Kansas and Darby will give Ike's candidacy a genuine home-grown and earthy aura. The Kansans are grateful for Eisenhower's support from Eastern industrialists and political leaders, but do not want to get Ike too thoroughly identified with them. They are even thinking of balancing...
...Georgetown one evening last week, wealthy Mrs. Alf Heiberg, whose second husband of four was General Douglas MacArthur, sat listening to a radio program on civil defense. The longer Mrs. Heiberg listened, the more alarmed she became. The next morning she scouted Washington, D.C. and found a contractor who could build her a bomb shelter with thick walls and heavy lead doors. Explained Mrs. Heiberg: "After all, if they attacked Washington I'm sure they'd aim a bomb at a former wife of General MacArthur, so I'm going to try to be prepared." Mrs. Heiberg...
Handsome, 54-year-old Harry Darby was as Republican as Kansas itself. A national committeeman, he turned down the national chairmanship this year, before it was handed to New Jersey's Guy Gabrielson. Darby wrenched control of Kansas' Republican delegation from Alf Landon last year and led it on to the Dewey bandwagon-and was one of the rare few who warned Deweymen that the Republicans might lose the 1948 election...
...onetime Bull Mooser, Reed was the trumpeting publisher of the Parsons Sun, an ardent dry and a crotchety independent. The G.O.P. denied him renomination for governor in 1930. In retaliation he backed a Democrat in the gubernatorial election, failed to support Hoover in 1932, acidly advised Fellow Kansan Alf Landon in 1936 to stay off the radio as much as possible. A rock-ribbed, prewar isolationist, he voted for the European Recovery Program, advocated the 48-hour-week and the open shop, never ceased harrying the New and Fair Deals with insistent cries for economy...