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...South Pacific Headquarters, was certain to win this week's preferential primary in Illinois. The Chicago Tribune gave an order to its constituents: "A vote for MacArthur will be a vote for the return of stalwart Americanism to the White House." But the vote would not bind Illinois delegates. In Manhattan, MacArthur Headquarters were opened at the staid, legend-encrusted Murray Hill Hotel...
...Hampshire's quirky election laws caused all the confusion. These laws bind any delegates pledged to a candidate to stay pledged no-matter-what, until their candidate's name is no longer before the convention. For this reason Wendell Willkie had urged his delegates not to pledge officially to him. Three men nonetheless officially pledged themselves. They lost. Six men who "unofficially" made their Willkie sympathies known (including two-term Governor Robert O. Blood) were elected. But two of the top three vote-getting delegates were antiseptically committed to no one. And two others of the winning eleven...
...Last week the International Latex Corp., whose Playtex girdle "controls but does not constrict or bind," enthusiastically reprinted the letter in newspaper...
George VI will feel the Duke's departure keenly; since the death of the Duke of Kent, Gloucester has been more than ever His Majesty's main help in the interminable chores of royalty. But a Royal Duke posted in Canberra should bind the British Commonwealth even more solidly together...
Committee must therefore make known that any decision that could have been taken on this subject would bind France only if she had participated...