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Sometimes harmony is an overrated political virtue, and this was one of the times, thought Pennsylvania's bluff, able Republican Governor James H. Duff. Said Big Jim: "We might as well get this fight over with and see what kind of party this is going...
...architects of the statement ran with no ball, even in the field of civil rights and social responsibility. Snapped New York's Senator Irving Ives, after reading what they brought forth: "Weak-kneed and inadequate ... far short of the 1948 platform." Said Pennsylvania's promising Governor James Duff: "Milk and water...
John Edwards' hurly-burly campaign will be a far cry from that waged by the Tory candidate in the Conservative constituency of South Hendon, a residential section at the northern edge of London. At 47, Sir Hugh Vere Huntly Duff Lucas-Tooth, Bart., a graduate of Eton and Oxford, a lieutenant colonel of His Majesty's Cameron Highlanders, was not one to get in a pother about an election campaign; Sir Hugh had few doubts that his constituents would troop dutifully to the polls on Feb. 23 and return him to Parliament with an impressive majority. Said...
Tyrone Power, Howard Duff and Montgomery Clift were chosen overwhelmingly as the three sexiest men in the world by 150 women movie extras, polled in Hollywood. The three sexiest women in the world: Ava Gardner, Jane Russell and Lana Turner. The biggest upsets: Errol Flynn and Ingrid Bergman got only one vote each...
...much the defeat in the November elections (the Republicans were used to defeat) but the direful question: What was wrong with the Republican Party? Nobody knew. Pennsylvania's Republican Governor James Duff thought the party ought "to shed some of the aloofness we have." Harold Stassen was blunt. "The Republican Party is in a bad way," he said. "It is sort of like a football team sustaining a crushing defeat after having advanced the ball to the five-yard line." What Stassen thought the party needed was "a tremendous lot of rebuilding...