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Quack Monologue. The current Satevepost collection (No. 5 in a series that has been appearing since 1946) lacks the work of such distinguished old-time Post regulars as John P. Marquand, Guy Gilpatric and Clarence Budington Kelland. But its breezy, lightweight stories are done by expert literary carpenters, e.g., Gerald Kersh and Steve McNeil, who know the formula perfectly. Moreover, the collection makes no claim to being the best literature of this or any other year...
Arizona's wizened, choleric Clarence Pudington Kelland took it from there. Said Kelland: "Scott . . . is a symbol of the ineptitude and of the betrayal of the Republican Party . . . He was only a ghost wandering around looking for a campaign to haunt." Iowa's Harrison Spangler, onetime national chairman, was next...
...positive was pugnacious old Clarence Budington Kelland, the slick fictioneer who is also national committeeman from Arizona-a part of the country where dinosaur relics are still found. One day last week, Bud Kelland delivered himself of a blast. Said he: "Dewey's campaign was smug, arrogant, stupid, and supercilious ... It was a contemptuous campaign, contemptuous alike to our antagonists and to our friends. The Albany group proved themselves to be geniuses in the art of stirring up an avalanche of lethargy. No issue was stated or faced." What was needed, said Kelland, was a "housecleaning from...
...There was little doubt about the kind of housecleaning Kelland had in mind. In his eyes-and in the eyes of the G.O.P. Old Guard-Tom Dewey and Earl Warren are pseudo-New Dealers and therefore not good Republicans...
...Kelland & Co. had some support from the lower echelons. Some 500 Southern California Republicans, meeting at Alhambra, Calif, last week, attacked Warren's "nonpartisanship," and called for the elimination of the state's cross-filing system "so we will be sure candidates who run for public office on the Republican ticket shall subscribe to the principles of real Republicanism." Some other Old Guardsmen kept their sense of humor. Said one: "These boys have wrecked the party in three different national elections. Now it's only fair to give us a chance to wreck...