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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contributed to the Holtz campaign in Brighton, Brookline, and Newton. Aside from door-to-door canvassing, some workers participated in an opinion poll of Tenth District voters, to determine what issues Holtz might use to best advantage in his campaign there. The poll, prepared by Dr. Ithiel Pool, an MIT professor, is similar to the one used in California to permit Adlai Stevenson to exploit the most significant problems in his primary fight with Senator Estes Kefauver...
...very rich fascinated Scott Fitzgerald, and he is at his best in scenes in which two or three top civil servants measure out other men's job futures in judicious mumbles. On this power ladder, Eliot represents the "new men," the non-U's in Nancy Mit-fordese, the men with the wrong school ties around their necks and humble aspidistras in the windows of their pasts. In that sense, Author Snow is the true chronicler of a new class-one of the Gals-worthiest classes in modern life...
...They spend a large part of the time running against me," Truman said at MIT, "But I'm not a candidate." Limitation number one--Truman can attack, but he cannot give them hell, or he would become an issue, and a vulnerable one at that...
Truman's major limitation is that he cannot state his support of Stevenson or Kefauver without seeming hypocritical. For example, he had a painful few seconds at the end of his MIT talk when he said, "I am highly pleased by the Democratic candidates for President and Vice President." The laughter was loud. The next evening, Truman made no such direct statement...
Stevenson, as a result, has no real cause for anxiety over Truman's activities. The only real loser is Harry Truman, who, apparently, is enjoying himself. As he said at MIT, "This is the role I like the best... the politician...