Word: pickings
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Iowa (24) : State Chairman Jake More has come out for Harriman, thereby helping Ave pick up the Kefauver pieces, but Iowa's delegation stands 14 for Stevenson, 7½ for Harriman, 2½ undecided...
Maryland (18): Stevenson is almost certain to pick up Primary Winner Kefauver's 18 unit-rule votes...
Best of all, the Democrats will be hiring their hall for almost nothing; most of the rental costs will be met by the promoters of a commercial exhibit called "American Showcase." Delegates can get free shaves at the Ronson booth, pick up free samples of Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola and, from the Norex division of Schenley Industries, Amitone, a relief for acid indigestion (common at conventions...
Instead of slyly coupling the Maidenform ad drive with any contemplated campaign for Adlai Stevenson, wouldn't it have been more newsworthy to pick up a Timelier peg for Norman, Craig & Kummel, Inc.-the agency that masterminded and launched The $64,000 Question! Nothing wrong with Maidenform, but surely you'd have chosen a different type of account to characterize N. C. & K.'s opposite number and to try to dignify what promises to be a dilly of an ad promotion for the Republican Party. Going to tell your readers about "hard sell...
COLORADO. The state convention met to hear speeches by Stevenson, Kefauver and Harriman, and to pick an uninstructed 20-vote delegation which leans strongly to Adlai. Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan and ex-Congressman John Carroll got approval to fight it out for the Democratic senatorial nomination in a Sept. 11 primary. The winner will square off against ailing Republican Eugene Millikin in November...