Word: deweyitis
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...taken with an important qualification. His name is far better known than Stevenson's, a difference which will level off between now and election day. In June Eisenhower led Stevenson 59-31 in a Gallup test. Ike's margin now is smaller than Tom Dewey's was in the first post-convention poll in July 1948, when Dewey led Truman...
...Trib's heart was broken when Bob Taft lost. After Ike's nomination, the Trib said he "can't win," is a "poor creature" manipulated by "Wall Street . . . Buster Dewey the cheap trickster, and Lodge the New Dealer, who pretends to be a Republican." When the Democrats came to town, the Trib had some kind words for Senators Byrd and Russell. It fancied the idea of supporting a Democratic presidential candidate-for the first time in its 104 years-if either of the Senators was nominated. But after Stevenson was named, the Trib began to come...
Missouri River from St. Louis during the 18303. On board the whisky-laden keelboat Mandan are a brawling Creole crew captained by roly-poly Frenchie (Steven Geray); a couple of Kentucky mountain men, high-spirited Jim Deakins (Kirk Douglas) and hot-tempered Boone Caudill (Dewey Martin); and a hostage Blackfoot princess named Teal Eye (Elizabeth Threatt), who has been taken along to safeguard the expedition against Indian attacks...
Scenes filmed in Grand Teton National Park give the feeling of the northwest's sprawling magnitude, of the raw, vast, lonesome land. And in the performances of Dewey Martin as the moody, savage Boone and Arthur Hunnicutt as the grizzled old fur trapper, The Big Sky captures some of the book's roughhewn poetry and its dark strain of violence...
Journey to the Far Pacific, by Thomas E. Dewey. A discerning and lively narrative of Dewey's travels in 17 countries last year (TIME, July...