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IOWA-26. Iowa National Committeeman Harrison E. Spangler is for Taft. Governor William S. Beardsley is an Ikeman. Taft claims a majority of the delegation...
GEORGIA-17. National Committeeman Harry Sommers, Atlanta automobile dealer and longtime friend of Tom Dewey, has made the jump to Taft. Coca-Cola President Robert Woodruff is an Ikeman. A strong Eisenhower campaign might win Georgia delegates, TIME'S Atlanta bureau reports...
PENNSYLVANIA-70. Ikeman Senator Jim Duff has no more than 25. U.S. Senator Edward Martin, National Committeeman G. Mason Owlett and the rest of the Grundy organization are for Taft. State Chairman M. Harvey Taylor will stand pat with Duff for Ike. Taftmen at the moment are counting on only the ten sure Grundy delegates. Half the delegation will go with Governor John S. Fine, originally a Duffman but now friendly to Grundy. So far, Fine has remained coldly neutral. He has one of the biggest piles of chips in the game...
...fight for control of the state party machinery. National Committeeman Henry Zweifel and State Chairman Orville Bullington are for Taft. If they stay in the saddle they can deliver 32 votes. Zweifel is challenged for control of the party by Houston Oilman H. J. Porter, an Ikeman. As in most organizational political fights, the incumbent bosses have a big advantage...
...hunh, Un-hunh. Energetic Ikeman Jim Duff of Pennsylvania had another card in the hole that he kept face down. During the Eisenhower visit, both he and New York's Governor Tom Dewey had talked to Ike by telephone from a Manhattan hotel suite. Neither would say what was said (an observer at Ike's end reported that the general said mostly "un-hunh, un-hunh"), but Dewey and Duff felt sufficiently confident to give marching orders to scores of G.O.P. bigwigs and littlewigs who trooped in & out of their suite for 36 hours. Then Duff hopped...