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...biennial convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Bricklayers Union were happily engaged in the normal pursuits of a beer bust one night last week when a pair of topflight Democratic politicians dropped in. He hoped, said Adlai Stevenson, that his amiable and popular companion, Washington's Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson, would be re-elected by a big majority. Then he added: "And I hope he can carry somebody else along with...
...Dwight Eisenhower and the Republicans in campaign speeches in Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California, Stevenson industriously worked not only to ride the Democratic coattail but to cloak himself from head to foot in the popularity of his party's most attractive public figures. After reaching for Magnuson in Washington, he jumped to the side of Wayne Morse in Oregon. Then in California he multiplied the tactic by importing the services of five silver-tongued, big-name Democratic officeholders-New Jersey's Governor Robert Mey-ner, Pennsylvania's Governor George Leader, Tennessee's Governor Frank Clement...
That meant that Stevenson would have to make up the deficit in the Far West-where his best chance is to grab onto Senator Warren Magnuson's flying coattails in Washington-and the industrial Northeast, where Pennsylvania looked especially important to the political swarms that were heading its way. That the Stevenson campaign still faced a steep uphill climb was evidenced by last week's Gallup poll, showing Ike still ahead of Adlai by 52% to 41%, with 7% undecided. For all the talk of farm revolt and G.O.P. disaster, Adlai Stevenson had not yet gained a single...
...Washington, where primary election voters can jump party lines at will on a single ballot, Democratic candidates rolled up substantially bigger vote totals than Republicans in most statewide races, were led by affable, two-term Senator Warren G. Magnuson, 51, who, although unopposed for renomination, gathered 426,000. This was a resounding 150,000 more than his November opponent, Republican Governor Arthur B. Langlie (TIME, Sept. 3), managed to poll in his primary race. Thoroughly drubbed in the Republican gubernatorial primary: Donald W. Eastvold, Washington's ambitious young (36) attorney general, who first gained political fame...
Washington. Capable Governor Arthur Langlie (see cover), has to outrun a proven vote-getter in Senator Warren Magnuson. An uphill race, with Maggie a step ahead...