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Adlai Stevenson will, nevertheless, be fighting for write-in votes against Rep. John W. McCormack (D-Mass), House majority leader. Estes Kefauver has recently asked his supporters to back McCormack's did for a "favorite son" candidacy.
The Physical Viewpoint. From Miami, Kefauver headed west to Omaha to fulfill a precampaign promise to deliver a non-political speech to the Nebraska Federation of Women's Clubs. As befitted a man with high hope of capturing Nebraska's twelve Democratic Convention votes, he improved the shining...
At week's end Estes Kefauver had every cause to be pleased with his progress. Though he insisted (and local dopesters agreed) that he was still running second to Stevenson in Florida, he had clearly made inroads in Adlai's strength there. And while New Jersey still looked...
As political reporter, analyst and author, Samuel (The Future of American Politics) Lubell, 44, has long trudged across the U.S. ringing doorbells like a brush salesman, shaking hands like a Kefauver and asking questions with the persistence of a six-year-old. He takes what people tell him, mixes it...
With the help of his longtime friend, Washington Lawyer Ed Wheeler, Graham hit on the virtually unknown junior Senator from Tennessee. But Estes Kefauver was reluctant. Graham gave him a long pep talk, finally exploded: "Damn it, Estes, don't you want to be Vice President?" That was the...