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...than you were four years ago?' " Then he hurried to the Hunt Armory for his speech, marched into an arena where 10,000 had filled all seats; half as many more were waiting to listen from outside. Introduced by Pennsylvania's campaigning U.S. Senator Jim Duff (see below), "Mamie Eisenhower's husband" apologized that Mamie was kept in Washington by a cold, proceeded to lash Democratic "partisan oratory that has concealed or twisted the facts" on small business, the cost of living, schools and labor. Said Ike: "I wonder what kind of political children they think...
...Duff, as willing to fight at 73 as when he was a brawling lad in the wildcat oilfields, but now trailing in his campaign for re-election against Philadelphia's ultraliberal, former Mayor Joseph Clark...
...Duff and the Grundy machine are not falling together. They are, by mutual choice made years ago, falling apart. It was progressive Republican Duff who first demonstrated the vulnerability of the Republican organization grown fat, arrogant and corrupt. With the help of the Grundy machine, Duff was elected governor in 1946-and was one of the state's ablest. A major reason for his success was his refusal to show fear or favor toward the machine that demanded both. The breakup was swift and spectacular: Duff's Senate election in 1950 was almost as bitter...
...Senator, Jim Duff soon played into the hands of his old enemies. A free-swinging heavyweight (6 ft. 1 in., 182 Ibs.) and distinctly an executive type, he needed more room to punch than the Senate cloisters could give him. He stepped down from the Senate's back benches only to give early, effective preconvention support to Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. Although he has since been one of the Administration's most loyal supporters, he has also been one of the least influential. In his distaste for the Senate, bristle-haired Jim Duff neglected both friend...
...BubbleGum Candidate."Once the decision was made, the old warrior's battle gorge began to rise. "I'm getting," he says of Opponent Joe Clark, "so I hate that guy's guts." Chugging around in his Ford station wagon, Duff has covered some 6,000 miles in his campaign, plans another 10,000 before Nov. 6. ("Damn, I've never done anything like this before.") To Jim Duff, the biggest issue in the 1956 elections is peace. "For anyone to think that Stevenson could replace Eisenhower as the keeper of the peace," he tells his audiences...