Word: deweyitis
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Small World (CBS. 6-6:30 p.m.). Edward (See It Now) Murrow begins his new series, an effort to bring the globe's great characters into the world's living rooms. The first show's cast: Jawaharlal Nehru, Aldous Huxley, Thomas E. Dewey...
...decided to dig in at Albany. The Governor shoveled generous chunks of patronage to traditionally starved upstate Democrats to get them to slave for Ave. Periodically he toured all 62 counties. He cut ribbons or pulled switches on new projects, some of them started by his predecessor, Tom Dewey. He funneled money into new roads and schools, did it without substantially increasing taxes. Gaunt, autocratic Averell Harriman, turning 67 and testy, even learned to chuckle while chucking babies and trading supermarket small talk. As the 1958 election approached, Harriman's party was out of the financial red; his opponents...
Candidate or Chowderhead? Even before Rockefeller left Washington in 1955, seasoned New York politicians thought they saw the start of a Rockefeller-for-Something movement. The clue: in 1953 knowledgeable Lieut. Governor Frank C. Moore was persuaded to step out of a bright future in Governor Thomas E. Dewey's administration, step into the Rockefeller Government Affairs Foundation as president, a position in which he would be within hailing distance for political counsel. Political geiger counters began to click in earnest last year, when Rockefeller volunteered to help build a stadium for the soon-to-leave-Flatbush Brooklyn Dodgers...
...first to hear the click was State G.O.P. Chairman Judson Morehouse. A year ago Morehouse had scribbled down the names of potential candidates: Tom Dewey, onetime Attorney General Herbert Brownell, U.S. Senator Jacob Javits. onetime G.O.P. National Chairman Hall. As a longshot he added Rockefeller, who had been a dependable campaign contributor ($10,000 a year). Morehouse dispatched poll takers across the state to see which name rang bells, was not surprised when Three-Termer Dewey's bonged loudest. But chiming in second place and tolling louder with each sample was Nelson Rockefeller. Realist Morehouse tore up his list...
...along with other people, the pragmatism of Dale Carnegie rather than that of James and Dewey--such was the lesson of Harvard the young F.D.R. learned, Frank B. Freidel, professor of History and a Roosevelt biographer, commented in a talk last night before a capacity audience in Harvard Hall...