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...little more than two weeks, the Republican Party will gather itself together, go to Philadelphia, make up its mind. That mind was still wandering last week. All that seemed certain was: 1) Thomas E. Dewey and Robert Alphonso Taft would go to the convention with more delegates than anyone else; 2) neither would have enough to win on the first ballot. Plentiful were the guesses that a dark horse might romp away with the nomination. The most rambunctious dark horse, getting more rambunctious daily, was Wendell Willkie, onetime Democrat...
...Dewey added Maryland's 16, Idaho's eight votes to his bag last week. But in California Herbert Hoover's agents quietly picked up 44 "uninstructed" delegates for their old boss. Ohio's Candidate Robert Alphonso Taft discovered last week that viewing-with-alarm, tub-thumping and Pullman undressing had shortened the life of his four all-purpose suits (funerals, weddings, Senate). He acted promptly: in 25 minutes he had enough clothes to carry him through the G. O. P. convention-one pair Regal shoes, black, $5.80; one dark grey, lightweight spring suit...
...Martin's nor Stassen's job promised to be a sinecure. Even as the committee met last week in Philadelphia, Republicans in the East, like an orchestra whose members were all reading from different scores, raised a cacophonous din. Sour was the note from Maryland, where Robert Alphonso Taft withdrew in pique before the rambunctious invasion of Tom Dewey. Liberal Republicans in the East, to whom the name of Pennsylvania Boss Joseph N. Pew Jr. is pure onomatopoeia, made beckoning sounds to a strayed Democrat, Wendell Willkie...
...Robert Alphonso Taft. Months ago (TIME, Dec. 18), the U. S. settled back to enjoy the Adventures of Robert in Bumbledom, decided that one of Mr. Taft's most attractive qualities was his knack of apparently muffing things. Industrious, hopeful, comfortable, the Dagwood Bumstead of American politics, Ohio's 50-year-old Senator was unprofessional, artless, refreshingly without a workable cure-all for every ill. By last week he had already rounded up more delegates than "Buster" Dewey will have at convention time, even if Mr. Dewey sweeps every primary in sight...
...Washington, Horace Dwight Taft, 14-year-old son of Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, got something out of the U. S. Treasury: an autograph from Secretary Henry Morgenthau...