Word: fritchey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professor of History and Pulitzer Prize winner, would probably serve in the organizing months, at least, of a Democratic Administration. Stevenson's law partners William McCormick Blair and Willard Wirtz would undoubtedly wind up on his White House staff, along with campaign manager Jim Finnegan and press secretary Clayton Fritchey. Estes Kefauver, as Vice President, seems slated for the post of "super-Secretary of Agriculture" if he fails to make himself an effective leader of the Senate. And a newcomer but a long-standing personal friend of Stevenson--Dean Edward S. Mason of the Littauer Center--could serve...
...with the momentum of his political odyssey. His speeches, the Tribune hinted, are not inspiring the voters as they should, and the crowds that are turning out to hear his attacks on Eisenhower have been smaller than hoped. Reportedly, the blame for this failure has been placed on Clayton Fritchey, Stevenson's press secretary. Fritchey, accordingly, would soon be fired for his own "failure to Jim Hagertize his way through this campaign" with sufficient effectiveness. These rumors, however, were vigorously denied the next day in Springfield by campaign manager Jim Finnegan...
...pampered newsmen with Stevenson need not even bother to register at their hotel stopovers; their keys are handed to them as they enter. Buses and police escorts are prompt; breakfast is invariably hot as the plane takes off each morning, and the Stevenson press staff, headed by Clayton Fritchey, gets all the speeches out in advance. But newsmen with Stevenson travel in a separate plane, get less access to the candidate than those with Nixon and Kefauver...
SENATOR ESTES KEFAUVER, this week's cover subject, started to introduce Correspondent Donald S. Connery to Democratic Press Secretary Clayton Fritchey one day last week. Said the Senator: "You know Mr. Connery . . ." Nodding, Fritchey interrupted: "Of course. He's your Boswell, isn't he?" Kefauver grinned: "Yes, but he's better than Boswell...
...Finnegan (TIME, Aug. 27) was named campaign manager for both Adlai and Running Mate Estes Kefauver; onetime (1946) Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt, who headed Stevenson's 1952 campaign, became "personal adviser" and "Coordinator of the Campaign Division"; Washington Attorney George Ball was designated "Coordinator of Public Relations"; Clayton Fritchey, longtime newsman (Cleveland Press, New Orleans Item), took leave from his job as deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee to become press secretary; and Roger Tubby moved over as "personal assistant," working under Fritchey...