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...headquarters on the eleventh floor of the Conrad Hilton Hotel and called a meeting of some 30 top Ikemen. Among those attending: Tom Dewey, Lucius Clay, Arthur Summerfield (then G.O.P. National Chairman), Henry Cabot and John Davis Lodge, Maryland's Governor Theodore McKeldin, Pennsylvania's Senator Jim Duff...
...national may impose a choice on a local committee, as Labor did last month when it made a Bevanite constituency in Liverpool accept that bulky anti-Bevanite, Mrs. Bessie Braddock (TIME, May 9). Locals can be balky. "Constituency-hunting is not an agreeable occupation," confessed the late Alfred Duff Cooper. "I sometimes thought that the members of the small executive committees, 'drest in a little brief authority,' took a certain pleasure in humiliating the candidates who presented themselves for approval." But one advantage of constituency-hunting is that the party can sometimes place its brightest lights...
...Colorado's Allott, Maryland's Beall, Connecticut's Bush, Kansas' Carlson, New Jersey's Smith, New Hampshire's Cotton, Pennsylvania's Duff, New York's Ives, California's Kuchel, Maine's Payne, Massachusetts' Saltonstall...
Republicans made the most of Leader's turnabout. Jeered U.S. Senator and ex-Governor James Duff: "The Leader tax program is sure enough a rock 'em, sock 'em plan, a regular Donnybrook Fair idea. When you look around to see who is getting hurt, you get socked right on the button yourself-more of a tax smack by hundreds of millions than was ever before proposed in Pennsylvania, most of it in direct violation of definite campaign pledges." But George Leader stood his ground. He snapped: "I have just begun to fight...
...Author Duff's equation is obviously wrong since the usual drop is 6 to 8 ft., and even at that distance the head may be avulsed occasionally. Paraphrasing the remark of the Queen of Hearts, I say, "off with his head" to Author Duff for accepting 19th century Hangman Berry's mathematical absurdity...