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...This is one of those mornings," rumbled Big Jim Duff cheerfully, "when it's a pleasure to get out of bed." Pennsylvania's strapping governor was as relaxed as a man who hadn't yet gotten up. In the Capitol at Harrisburg, his long legs were draped over the edge of his massive circular desk. He had just clobbered the G.O.P.'s Old Guard in last week's primaries...
...regulars set out to get him. Hastily but carefully they organized a "write-in" campaign for Duff's old mentor and present campaign foe, U.S. Senator Ed Martin. They launched a heavily financed attack on the governor's state chairman, Harvey Taylor, who was running for renomination as state senator. A fortnight ago Congressman Clarence Brown, Taft's campaign manager, predicted confidently: "Duff will be handled...
...painful hush gripped the crowd of 12,500. On the ice of Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens the impossible had happened. Olympic Champion Barbara Ann Scott, at the end of the opening number of her first performance since she returned from Europe, had slipped and fallen, duff-first, on the ice. Until that night last week, peerless Barbara Ann had never taken a tumble in public. She picked herself up, got an ovation from the crowd, skated away. Said the Ottawa Journal soothingly: "It didn't matter...
...Poetry. PMAsters, many a steelman among them, gasped. When they had helped elect Jim Duff governor in 1946, they had no reason to expect that he would be anything but "regular." Before he got to Harrisburg, the only public office he had ever held was the solicitorship of his native Carnegie, a Pittsburgh suburb. Besides practicing law, he wildcatted for oil with moderate success. On the side, he liked to read Elizabethan poetry...
...when he was given his first important party job: running Ed Martin's 1942 campaign for the governorship. When Martin won, Duff was rewarded with the post of state attorney general. When Martin decided to run for the U.S. Senate, party bigwigs considered four other men for the governorship before they finally settled...