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Veterans Together. Stevenson's triumphal, whistle-tooting week began when Estes Kefauver called a press conference in the Congressional Room of Washington's venerable Willard Hotel-the same room where he had launched his campaign last December. There, standing by accident beneath an EXIT sign and flanked by...
Colorado (20): Last week Harriman was making personal calls to Kefauver delegates, without notable success. The present breakdown: 12½ for Stevenson, five for Harriman, 2½ undecided. Of the fence sitters, one leans to Stevenson, 12 to Harriman.
The Harriman forces were stunned. Harriman had been dickering hard for Kefauver support, had. moreover, been wooing Kefauver delegates. In Chicago, when Harriman's national campaign director, Loyd Benefield, got wind of the Kefauver abdication, he worked around the clock to corral Kefauver strays, wound up with some success...
Strength Through Desertion. In bowing out for the presidency, Kefauver had added himself to the active list of live vice-presidential possibilities (TIME, Aug. 6)-not so much for the headlines he brought Stevenson at a critical time, but for the strength he left behind him in the critical farm...
Adlai wasn't talking much. He was very grateful to Kefauver for his "gracious, spontaneous expression of support." He thought Kefauver was only one among "many qualified candidates for Vice President." It was a long way from an endorsement of anybody-arithmetic or no. In fact, it was something...