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That placed Candidate Dwight Eisenhower farther ahead than he was at the start of the 1952 campaign, when the first post-convention sampling gave Eisenhower 50%, Stevenson 43%, and left 7% undecided. When the popular vote was counted in November, Eisenhower received 54.9%, Stevenson 44.4%. If the present undecided 7% were to split as the "decideds" did, Pollster Gallup pointed out, the candidates would stand today...
...best Estes could get was another slap in the face-and he was running out of cheeks to turn. But Kefauver talked to Stevenson at Adlai's victory party and received personal assurances that the race was indeed open. He left the party, huddled with aides in a post-midnight session, talked it over with Nancy and decided to make the fight that he won on the wild second ballot...
...Wearing the overseas cap of Whittier American Legion Post No. 51, of which he is a member, Vice President Richard Nixon stepped before 6,000 cheering fellow Legionnaires and guests at the closing session of their 38th national convention in Los Angeles last week to make his campaign speech. He took aim, point by point, at the speech made from the same platform 24 hours earlier by Adlai Stevenson...
...million this year. ¶ Allison R. (for Ripley) Maxwell Jr., 42, Pittsburgh Steel's sales vice president, stepped into the shoes of Avery Adams. A native of Pittsburgh, he joined the company straight from Princeton in 1935, climbed through sales and engineering to the No. i sales post in 1952. There he helped change Pittsburgh Steel's sales line to the point where more than half of last year's sales were products the company did not even manufacture before he became vice president...
...arranging a $500,000 loan from a Manhattan bank to get the paper started again, the trustees persuaded 850 employees to come back to work without immediately getting a month's back wages $187,000. With no change in the editorial direction, the trustees hope to keep the Post going long enough to plan its reorganization and woo a buyer. But the paper had already lost some of its features, staffers and circulation (240,000 before it closed down) to other Boston dailies. After running downhill at a fast clip under Fox's four-year control (TIME, July...