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Redheaded, 67-year-old Jim Duff was locked in a rousing fight with the moss-grown, reactionary forces of bright-eyed, apple-cheeked, 87-year-old Joe Grundy. The battleground was the May primaries, when Duff will run for the Senate nomination against John C. Kunkel, a faithful, colorless Grundyman now serving his sixth lackluster term in Congress. More than any platform or pronouncements, the outcome might well determine, the course and fate of the Republican Party...
Baited Harmony. For months there had been more private talk and public acrimony than Pennsylvania had heard for years. Not even the staunchest Grundyman believed there was much chance of defeating Duff as the senatorial nominee. Instead, Grundy forces concentrated their fire on the governorship, which carries with it -the most potent patronage-disposal of 40,000 state jobs. They produced a "harmony candidate"-Colonel Jay Cooke, a retired Philadelphia investment banker and a Purple Heart veteran of both world wars. Cooke was not a completely orthodox Grundyite; he had been one of Harold Stassen...
Harvey Taylor, a converted Grundyman who was after renomination as state senator. But that attempt to give Duff his comeuppance ended disastrously...
Last week the Democrats and the P.A.C. came back with their tails left hanging on the barbed wire. Grundyman Lichtenwalter rolled up the biggest G.O.P. majority in the district's history. Democrat Phil Storch, 36, president of the Lehigh Valley Newspaper Guild (C.I.O.), had concentrated on industrial Lehigh County. "If I can win it," he had said, "we will have proved our point that the Republicans can be beaten in the next national election." In Lehigh County the G.O.P. upped its 1946 margin of 54.4% to 55.1%-What pained the Democrats most was the national attention which the election...
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