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Confusing & Varied. In Pennsylvania last week, General Eisenhower won another popular victory. He ran away with Pennsylvania's presidential preference primary, polling 847,420 votes, the most any candidate ever got in a Pennsylvania primary. Bluff Senator Jim Duff was the state's only big Republican in public support of Eisenhower, and the machine of former Senator Joseph R. Grundy was solid against him. But Ike ran 31,000 votes ahead of Senator Ed Martin, who won renomination with the zealous support of all the regular G.O.P. organization. In eight head-on tests, the voters elected...
...dare to submit to cross-examination by the reporters of the nation's press for fear of collapsing?" So asks a press release issued by a Connecticut abrasives manufacturer named Edward B. Gallaher. The loaded questions are part of an open letter from Gallaher to Ike Campaigner Jim Duff. The "letter" will be published, says the press release, in the June issue of Gallaher's Clover Business Letter ("some 300,000 subscribers...
...delegation switches were those of Maryland (from McKeldin), New York (from Dulles), Pennsylvania (from Duff), and Oregon (from Morse). The Oregon switch came after a telegram from Morse that he wished his candidates to be gives to Eisenhower...
...primary day neared in New Hampshire, Dwight Eisenhower's forces spread across the state to speak for their man. Pennsylvania's big Senator Jim Duff, Ford Foundation President Paul Hoffman, Connecticut Governor John Davis Lodge and Kansas Senator Frank Carlson were out on the campaign trail. Television's Tex McCrary was roaming the mountains and valleys with a troop of entertainers, which included Tony Lavelli, onetime Yale basketball star (he shoots baskets at rallies), Maestro Fred Waring, Entertainers Les Paul & Mary Ford. Tex's wife, Jinx Falkenburg, was there ("as a wife & mother") to decorate...
...Eisenhower forces got an early start. The Republican organization, headed by Governor Sherman Adams, is hard at work for him. Rallies are scheduled featuring Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, his brother Governor John Davis Lodge of Connecticut, Pennsylvania's Senator James Duff and former ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman...