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...Dangers of Huff-Huff. A typical uncommitted delegate is Russell E. (for Eggman) Crawford, of Montgomery County, which adjoins Philadelphia on the west and north. Crawford is secretary and a director of the Ehret Magnesia Manufacturing Co. (200 employees), a respected community leader and a member of 39 organizations, including the Masons (33rd Degree), the Rotary, the American Legion, the Philadelphia Union League, the Jefferson fire company, the board of trustees of the Y.W.C.A. and the Republican Party...
Since the primary (April 22), Crawford has received 350 letters and postcards from voters, so far about 6-4 in favor of Ike. Sample exhortations: "General Eisenhower is the only Republican who can win this election-and we have to win it." "Eisenhower says he's a Republican but he has never proved it." He has had letters from Senators Taft, Capehart and Lodge. He has been getting pro-Taft papers, including the Chicago Tribune. He dutifully reads as many editorials...
Cinemactress Joan Crawford burbled happily to Chicago reporters about her first independently produced picture, Sudden Fear: "It's wonderful to be casting myself. For 20 years I have been a gangster's moll. At last I am wellborn. I'm a novelist, yes, a successful novelist. You don't think I'd play an unsuccessful novelist in my first picture...
Chemicals. Union Carbide & Carbon's sales rose $6,000,000, but its net fell 20% (to $23 million). Du Pont's sales were up $2,000,000 and the net was "substantially" off. Said President Crawford H. Greenewalt: "The seller's market . . . is ... a thing of the past. .. The slump in textiles affects Du Pont most seriously...
...regulations is the shortage of accommodations for so many people as show up at events like the Carnival. At the past Carnival some men were forced to find refuge in halls and doorways. The 45 invitation limit will take care of all for whom space is available, said Francis Crawford, Jr., Chairman of the Council Committee on Weekend Controls...