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George Allison Wilson, 58, Iowa, who moved up from the Governorship by beating Senator Clyde L. Herring (who had the personal blessing of lowan Henry Wallace). A rugged six-footer who likes to fish and to work in his garden, Wilson is an honest but unspectacular politico whose hat has been in one ring or another almost ever since he got out of law school...
...aging Liberal George Norris (see p. 20). Go-Getter Wherry is simultaneously lawyer, funeral director, farmer, owner of three Ford agencies, Mayor of Pawnee City (pop. 1,600). In his spare time, as Republican State Chairman, he revived his State's moribund political organization, antagonized many a veteran politico with his brashness, but got results at the polls...
Clare Boothe Luce, onetime managing editor of Vanity Fair, playwright (The Women, Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Margin for Error), front-line war reporter, elected from Connecticut's Fairfield County. Said novice Politico Boothe: I have campaigned for fighting a hard war-not a soft war. Therefore this election proves how the American people want to fight with their eyes open, not with blinders. They want to fight it efficiently and without bungling. They want to fight it in honorable, all-out, plain-spoken partnership with all our Allies...
Franklin Roosevelt, wartime President, held Politico Roosevelt in check. Outside his own State of New York, he made only one public endorsement: a repetition of his 1936 plea for reelection of Nebraska's famed Senator George Norris, an Independent...
George Marshall's staff swears that the President has up to now never overruled his decisions on "purely military matters." Only on politico-military matters (the Army's move into New Caledonia; the proposal to draft 18-year-olds) must the Chief of Staff be guided by the President...