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Last week Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver was telling an improbable yarn about the G.O.P., but asserting that it "could have happened." The Keef's rib-tickler: After a newsman asked a Republican Congressman to define "Modern Republicanism," a Democratic bystander gave the answer: "Modern Republicanism is excitingly and dynamically conservative. It is neither inflexibly traditional nor discordantly progressive. It is at once distinctive and secure, but never overwhelming or confining. It has dignity, quality and dependability. It is designed for men and women of early middle age with an income of over $25,000 a year...
...CONGRESS Restless Estes Scanning Senate Democratic committee assignments this session, Syndicated Columnist Doris Fleeson last week sniffed some skulduggery at the political crossroads. Ignoring seniority and the sensitivity of Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, the Democratic Steering Committee also had ignored the Keef's restless desire to sit on the prestige-weighted Foreign Relations Committee. Instead, the lone Foreign Relations opening was awarded to Massachusetts' able young (39) Jack Kennedy, narrowly beaten by Kefauver at Chicago last summer for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination. Aware of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's subtle touch in every sphere...
Shaking Like a Keef...
...hands of the anarchical Marx brothers. Nothing seemed to go right. Suitcases were lost, people missed the plane. Top Aide J. Howard McGrath, his sodden cigar clamped in his jaw, once absentmindedly darted into a ladies' room; local leaders along the route were frequently unprepared for the Keef's arrival-late as it invariably was. There was something of the horse-drawn medicine show about Kefauver's approach-neither high road nor low road, but side-of-the-road. No one but Estes would pause to cut a hole in his sock because his toe hurt ("Gotta...
Regional Readings. Came the weekend, and so, too, came Estes Kefauver, fresh from a triumphant homecoming in Madisonville, Tenn. (where he expressed his homespun concern that "bigness is encroaching on Main Street"). The Keef's arrival in Libertyville prompted a new decree by Jim Finnegan: henceforth, Estes will be welded to Adlai with a hyphen, thereby assuring the proper identity of the Stevenson-Kefauver "team." This week teammates and staff climbed aboard a chartered DC-7, headed out on a week-long trip. Purpose: 1) to take regional readings from politicos in the Southwest, Northwest, Middle West...