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Behind the G.O.P. victories in Colorado were Denver Adman Jean K. Tool, 43, who took over as state chairman two years ago, and Robert E. Lee, a backroom pro who heads the Denver party organization. Between them, they replaced 40% of the county chairmen, cut the average age of district captains from the 70s to the 40s, raised money for a radio and television blitz-and produced two of the most attractive candidates anywhere. They were Lawyer John Love, 45, for Governor, and Representative Peter Dominick, 47, for the Senate...
...FAMILY But despite his deceptively casual manner, wartime R.A.F. Officer Maudling was one of the brightest and most diligent of the "backroom boys" who helped to liberalize Tory policy in the early 1950s...
Albert's style of leadership is low-pressure. He deplores the sort of backroom bloodletting that has sometimes spattered the records of quick-drawing majority leaders of the past. He approves the Rayburn technique of giving members a loose rein when it comes to difficult votes. "If you whip them into line every time," he says, "by the session's third vote you're through. If you can't win them by persuasion you can't win them at all." On the other hand, Albert is tough enough to demand votes when the outcome...
...Backroom Gossip. Some of the most rewarding material are autobiographical reminiscences by writers who would not deign to confide to the slick-paper mass magazines. Thus, in effect, the little magazines form a kind of intellectual backroom where earnest highbrows can eaves drop on literary gossip. Seymour Krim (in Noble Savage) is scathingly honest about the pitfalls for a young writer desperate for integrity. Herbert Gold, in the same issue, takes a real cool look at death in the tinselly heat of Miami Beach...
...partner in the firm named Adlai Stevenson. After wartime service on Navy subchasers, Day went briefly back to his Chicago practice, quit in 1949 to help out Old Friend Stevenson, newly elected as Governor of Illinois, as an administrative assistant in Adlai's "kitchen cabinet." Day entertained the backroom boys with homemade limericks on Springfield politics, eventually became state insurance commissioner. The job was a stepping-stone to a second career: after Stevenson's presidential defeat in 1952, Day joined the Prudential Insurance Co., rose to one of the top spots (behind President Carrol Shanks), as chief...