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...country club near Miami Beach, under the approving eye of a local pro, Manhattan Lawyer Thomas E. Dewey, 54, wearing Bermuda shorts in balmy 80° weather, practiced some shots with his irons, thus gave golf another boost toward seeming the modern politician's favorite game. A middling golfer keeping fit, Republican Dewey usually tours 18 holes in the high...
...while the Dewey-Roosevelt presidential election passed by almost unnoticed, war events did stir up interest. When the Allies landed in Normandy on May 6, 1944, thoughts immediately turned toward victory. On the other hand, Nock remembers that the air was charged with "a quite astonishing gloom when the Bastogne Battle began...
Burned deep in the public mind since 1948-and as deeply burning to the "scientific" pollsters and to newsmen-was the much-printed picture of beaming, victorious Harry Truman holding up a copy of the Chicago Tribune headlined DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. The fire had been lighted by Pollsters George Gallup, Elmo Roper, et al., who had miscalled the 1948 election. The public remembered 1948, and so did the pollsters. In 1952, though they detected the Ikeward lean with impressive accuracy, they carefully hedged their final figures with large percentages of undecided voters and other forms of insurance...
...York Lawyer Thomas E. Dewey, 54, twice (1944, 1948) G.O.P. nominee for President, proved administrator in his twelve years as governor of New York, still very much a power in the G.O.P. ¶ Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 54, well schooled in the ways of diplomacy by his day-by-day, hour-by-hour conduct of U.S. affairr in the U.N., well grounded in the ways of Washington by his twelve years as Republican Senator from Massachusetts...
With the exception of Dewey Short, few familiar faces will be missing from the next Congress. Republican Katharine St. George easily staved off the challenge of World War II Cartoonist William ("Willie and Joe") Mauldin in New York's 28th District, and Incumbent Frederic Coudert Jr. surmounted a dangerous bid by Democrat Anthony Akers, World War II PT-boat skipper. It was a bad year for basketball players too. In Kentucky, Wallace ("Wah Wah" Jones, one of the two "clean" players on the bribe-prone 1948-49 Kentucky basketball team, was smothered by Democratic Incumbent John Watts, and Minnesota...