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voters overwhelmingly nominated William Scranton, 44, an impressive freshman in the U.S. House of Representatives, who was supported both by Johnson's alliance and by the Meehan-Hamilton people...
Statewide, Scranton's vote of 728,369 votes outstripped that of the Democratic nominee, former Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dil worth...
Even in Philadelphia, Scranton ran only 20,000 behind Dilworth. And under the challenge of the reformist Republican alliance, the old G.O.P. had bestirred itself as it had not in years. If its energy can continue through November, Scranton, who is already being mentioned as a dark horse for the Republican presidential nomination...
...story is so amusing that it would be worth seeing even if performed by the Scranton High School Thespian Society...
...ease the lot of the Pulitzer juries, the entrants rarely hide behind false modesty. "It is impossible to estimate the proverbial blood, sweat and tears which went into this undertaking," said the Scranton Tribune in 1959, submitting the work of Tribune Reporter J. Harold Brislin, whose stories helped send ten union leaders to jail. "The most remarkable mission in postwar journalistic history," read the blurb on the 1956 entry of the Hearst Task Force which had gone to Russia and interviewed Khrushchev and missed the big story of the year, the downfall of Premier Georgy Malenkov. The Pulitzer Advisory Board...