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James Henderson Duff, governor of Pennsylvania, is a strapping redhead with the comfortable girth of an archbishop and the piercing eyes of an evangelist. Last week, full of evangelical hellfire, Big Jim proclaimed himself the prophet of a new kind of Pennsylvania Republicanism...
...DUFF S. HANSEN
...sounded innocent enough at the start. Pennsylvania's leading GOPoliticos had decided to give a little dinner for Governor James H. Duff at Washington's swank 1925 F Street Club. Senator Ed Martin, who is the real Republican leader of Pennsylvania, turned up with a select group of capital headliners, including Senators Taft and Vandenberg and General Dwight Eisenhower. Aged Joe Grundy arrived from Pennsylvania with a train of lesser politicians and their wives. After a sumptuous dinner, the ladies retired and the gentlemen fired up their cigars. Then somebody suddenly dispelled the air of pleasant sociability...
...including Pennsylvania, however. Said Republican Governor James (Big Jim) Duff as Dewey finished his western tour: "For the Republican Party to tie itself up to a single candidate for the presidency at this time . . . would be like selling the party a pig in a poke...
...That afternoon, his twin-engined Dakota set him down at Le Bourget. Behind a motorcycle escort with whistles blowing, he and a carful of mild, bespectacled Foreign Office experts drove to the British Embassy on the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré. For three hours Bevin and British Ambassador Duff-Cooper sat in low armchairs overlooking the Embassy gardens, comparing notes. Then Premier Paul Ramadier and dapper, London-tailored Foreign Minister Georges Bidault arrived with their experts. Eleven French and eleven Britons got their heads together over the veal,* adjourned to the garden veranda later for whiskey, brandy, and more...