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Manhattan Lawyer Thomas E. Dewey, insistently a private citizen, slipped into the White House for an hour-long talk with President Eisenhower last week, chatted with newsmen on the way out, and unfolded some highly public opinions...
...year-old Merlyn Stuart Pitzele (pronounced Pit-sell-lee), the rewards of a lifetime in and around the labor movement have been considerable. A natty dresser and nifty talker, Pitzele is Business Week labor editor, was Dwight Eisenhower's labor adviser, served as Tom Dewey's New York State Mediation Board chairman. Last week, appearing in the McClellan committee's investigation of labor-relations Wheeler-Dealer Nathan Shefferman (TIME, Nov. 4), Mel Pitzele owned up to still another reward. While he was editing stories, advising Ike and mediating labor disputes, he was also collecting...
...McClellan committee that there could be impropriety in advising Beck at the same time he was working for both Business Week and mediating labor disputes for New York State. "It never even occurred to me," said he, to mention his Beck bucks to the magazine or to Governor Dewey. But there were others at the hearing who were less satisfied with the ethics of the situation. Across the committee table New York's Senator Irving Ives shook his head in disbelief. Said Ives to Mel Pitzele: "You and I know each other pretty well, and I am a little...
...reply to the long-bouncing rumor that he would soon succeed John Foster Dulles* as Secretary of State, Dewey said: "Secretary Dulles will be here for the duration. We've got a fine Secretary of State. He's going to stay until 1960, so far as I know...
Turning to 1960 Republican presidential possibilities, Dewey saw Vice President Richard Nixon as a "superb" candidate. He protested that this was no presidential endorsement for Nixon ("they're all good men"), but he gave notably shorter shrift to others. Said he of retired General Alfred Gruenther: "I don't know him well." And of California's Senator William Knowland and Hardy Perennial Harold Stassen: "I haven't seen them campaigning...