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Both before and after his 470,000-vote win over Democrat Richardson Dilworth for Governor of Pennsylvania, Republican William Scranton denied that he had any national ambitions for '64. Yet such is the contradictory language of politics that the more one denies, the more one is thought to affirm. In that sense, Scranton last week seemed to some to be heading hell-bent...
...Pennsylvania's Representative William Scranton. 45, who was elected Governor over Philadelphia's former Mayor Richardson Dilworth by 470,000 votes. Scranton (TIME cover. Oct. 19), who matched Dilworth insult for insult in one of the most savage campaigns in recent U.S. history, cut deeply into the Democratic fortress of Philadelphia, won ordinarily Democratic Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) by 52,000 votes. With a Republican legislature to help him, plus patronage powers that will give him control of 50,000 state jobs, Scranton awoke on the morning after Election Day as a Republican really to be reckoned with...
Invective has dominated the bitter race for Governor of Pennsylvania almost from the start, and last week Democrat Richardson Dilworth told a Philadelphia audience why. "The five or six issues we have have become deadly dull," he said. "Newspaper readers want something spicy. As a result, for the want of something better to do, we insult each other." He promptly demonstrated how this is done. Cried he of Republican William Scranton: "I would like to separate him from his skinny behind . . . Do you want a man for Governor who spent his time in the State Department helping the cleaning woman...
Republican William W. Scranton defeated Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dilworth to win the Governorship formerly held by Democrat David Lawrence. Democratic Senator Joseph S. Clark managed to win re-election over James Van Zandt...
Philadelphia is a vibrant, energetic city awakened from its lethargy and sullenness by a vigorous and dynamic leader-Mayor Dilworth...