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...Pennsylvania, Republicans have united behind a formidable gubernatorial candidate, Representative William Scranton, 44, to run against Philadelphia's Democratic ex-Mayor Richardson Dilworth, who is warring with Representative William Green, boss of the Philadelphia Democratic organization...
After months of infighting, the king makers of both parties finally settled last week on their candidates for Governor. For the Democrats, it was Socialite Yaleman Richardson Dilworth, 63, who resigned after six years as mayor of Philadelphia to seek the nomination. The Republicans picked Socialite Yaleman William W. Scranton, 44, a first-term U.S. Representative who defeated an incumbent Democratic Congressman in 1960 while Jack Kennedy carried the state...
Bell Ringer. In Bill Scranton, the Republicans introduced a young, fresh face, the scion of a wealthy and prominent Pennsylvania family (the state's populous coal-mining city bears their name). Bill Scranton flew transports in the Army Air Force for four years during World War II, serving in South America, Africa and the Middle East. He was Special Assistant to Secretary of State Christian Herter before he fought his way to victory in Pennsylvania's largely Democratic Tenth Congressional District with a doorbell-punching campaign that stressed local issues, including his part in bringing new industries into...
...Scranton's road to his party's nomination for Governor was as tortuous, if not as rough, as Dilworth's. Last month Scranton said that he was content to run for re-election to the House, wanting to get more experience there, would consider the governorship only if he had support from all factions of the party and if his nomination would stop the bickering. Last week he got it, after a good deal of intraparty warfare from which he personally remained aloof...
...right-leaning tradition of onetime State Chairman Joe Grundy (the inspiration for Grundyism, a byword for stiff-collared conservatism), started off by backing a political nobody: Superior Court Judge Robert E. Woodside, 57. Then U.S. Senator Hugh Scott jumped into the race, ready to step aside if Scranton ran, and touched off a major melee by quoting Gettysburg Republican Dwight Eisenhower as saying he would "rather see a primary fight than be forced to take a miserable ticket"-a thinly disguised blast at Woodside. The Old Guard reluctantly retired Woodside, brought out U.S. Representative James E. Van Zandt...