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Jackie's temporary home in Georgetown, built in 1805, was purchased by the Harrimans last spring from Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton for $165,000. It has seven bedrooms, a dining room to seat 18, and a block-long terraced garden with fine old English boxwood, magnolia trees and a swimming pool. There Jackie will be surrounded by the paintings of Cezanne, Matisse, Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. Only three blocks away is the home where she lived for three years while her husband was a U.S. Senator...
...Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton gets more new momentum than anyone. But he still is not nationally known, and much of the increased interest in him is expressed in such phrases as "Tell us more about...
...Scranton: Ready to Try? In many ways, Governor Scranton would seem a natural. He is the young (46), smart, tough chief executive of a big Northeastern industrial state-a state of the sort that Republicans presumably would have a much better chance of carrying against Johnson than against Kennedy. Scranton has had Washington experience (Congress and the State Department), and he won his present job in a rock-'em-sock-'em campaign...
While Kennedy was still President, Scranton sounded terribly convincing in his denials that he had any presidential ambition. But in the last few days he has been under increasing pressure to make a try, and some of his friends think that they can see him beginning to sway...
...Scranton's earlier reluctance kept him out of national Republican Party factions and fights. That is now to his advantage. Yet at the same time it prevented him from becoming nationally known. And that, at least in traditional political terms, would be to his disadvantage. A top Missouri Republican denies this. "Some people," he says, "think that Scranton is not well known enough. But today, with TV, newspapers and magazines, you can sell a man overnight...