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...Walter Lippmann (writing of the expected interregnum): "The course of events cannot be halted for three months until Mr. Dewey is inaugurated...
...Drew Pearson's day-after-election column: "I surveyed the close-knit group around Tom Dewey, who will take over the White House 79 days from now. Here is the line...
...Broadway Columnist Danton Walker, on Election Day: "Dewey's first official act as President-elect will be to name a new Secretary of State...
...Christian Century, under the headline MR. DULLES SHOULD BE NAMED AT ONCE on Nov. 3: "The constitutional interregnum . . . cannot be avoided, but if the President-elect will name his Secretary of State immediately, the damage . .. will be held at a minimum." This week the Christian Century was still calling Dewey "the President-elect...
Read All About It. The press (TIME and LIFE included) had planned postelection issues on the seemingly safe basis that Dewey was in. Hundreds of editorial writers and syndicated columnists, who had turned in their regular Wednesday stints in advance, had struck the same note. Therefore, on election night, from London's Fleet Street to San Francisco's Market Street, newspaper hellboxes overflowed with type that was hastily dumped as the returns came in. (One groundless gossip-columnist report: that LIFE had to junk an issue with Dewey on the cover.) Not all caught themselves in time...