Word: deweyitis
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...accepted a U.S. bid to talk about their differences. For hours, while almost no one analyzed the Smith-Molotov texts, the whole world felt a springlike breath of hope. The magic word "peace" appeared in headlines. People saw a melting of the frozen front of the cold war. Tom Dewey, electioneering in Oregon, hailed it as "the best news since V-J day if they [the Russians] mean...
...smooth sailing. In Eugene a group of student hecklers from the University of Oregon plopped down in the front row, diligently leafed through copies of LIFE with a picture of Harold Stassen on the cover. In Portland, Dewey refused a drink of bourbon offered by a local politico, ducked out for his own bottle of Scotch. Commented a local columnist: "Out West here, podner, men have been shot for refusing to drink out of the common cookin' likker bottle and then showing up with their own pizen...
...Converts. But Dewey's dogged campaigning, his determined attempts at folksiness were unquestionably winning him new converts every day. By week's end Harold Stassen anxiously changed plans and prepared to return to the scene three days ahead of schedule. Dewey was feeling cocky enough to start talking about the men he had in mind for his Cabinet. The Secretary of the Interior, he promised, would certainly be a westerner. For Secretary of State, he announced, he had two men in mind: his longtime adviser John Foster Dulles and his unannounced presidential rival, Arthur Vandenberg...
Presidential Timber (Wed. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Governor Dewey...
Governor Thomas E. Dewey (Fri. 10 p.m., Mutual) meets the press...