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...Many political columnists prefer to run with the partisan pack, but Clapper declares: "In this business you've got to be a kind of lone wolf." He has refused to endorse any group, and he belongs to no political party. A pre-Hearst discoverer and longtime friend of Alf Landon, Clapper did not mince his criticism when Landon swung to the Old Guard in the 1936 campaign. He is still Landon's friend...
...heard much about it, but the future of the Republican Party was quite possibly at stake. Politicians watched each little development as soldiers watched the news from Libya. The cast of characters was of the highest political stature: Franklin Roosevelt, Wendell Willkie, Herbert Hoover, Thomas E. Dewey, Alf Landon, Charles L. McNary, James A. Farley, Herbert H. Lehman, Joe Martin, and on down to a host of others...
Thomas E. Dewey, New York's onetime racket-buster, was the gubernatorial candidate of the Old Guard. Alf Landon had a man checking in with the rural vote upstate to see if all was safe for Dewey. Herbert Hoover spent much time in New York, to be on hand to counsel...
Clyde Reed has once been Governor of Kansas (1929-31), having got there with the help of Campaign Manager Alf Landon. He had a tempestuous administration, quarreled with everyone. His friend Roy Roberts, rotund managing editor of the Kansas City Star, told him: "If you manage to meet enough people, you're a cinch to be beaten next time." He did and he was. Reed stayed in political retirement until 1938, when he emerged to oppose rabble-rousing Rev. Gerald Winrod in the Republican Senatorial primary, went on to win the Senate seat...
Then "Dead Eye" went on to score a foul shot and take the lead himself. Conlin's last chance came yesterday in the Lowell game, but "Affable Alf" was too nervous, missing all three foul shots. The three year rivalry ended in victory for Eberle, one point to nothing...