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Whose Favorite? Last week, drawing up the card for the primary, a bipartisan Wisconsin nominating committee was divided on what other candidates to place on the ballot. Nixon, Romney, California Governor Ronald Reagan and, as always, Harold Stassen, were accepted as "generally advocated or recognized" possibilities. So were Rockefeller and Illinois' Senator Charles Percy, though both immediately announced that they would seek to have their names removed...
...special, Hope played a Santa Claus who gets arrested by Patrolman Phil Silvers for parking on a Los Angeles freeway-hardly a format for getting off cracks about public figures. He did it anyway, by exhibiting gifts from his bag: a special award from the Optimists Club for Harold Stassen; a book of one-syllable words for William F. Buckley Jr.; an electric blanket for Frank Sinatra; a surfboard for General de Gaulle, to be used as a tongue depressor...
...Your cover is frightfully delightful. But why did Conrad exclude that political perennial? In other words, where the hell is Stassen? Surely that is not Childe Harolde in the background staring angrily over the right shoulder of Gorgeous George...
Died. Victor A. Johnston, 66, longtime Republican senatorial campaign director, known as "the silver fox of Capitol Hill" because of his handsome white mane and his sharp nose for turning up election funds, who in 18 years raised uncounted millions to help such candidates as Harold E. Stassen, Joseph McCarthy, Robert A. Taft, and Barry Goldwater, and counted as one of his toughest jobs finding financial support last year for Oregon's Mark Hatfield, whose dovelike stand on Viet Nam soured many powerful G.O.P. moneymen; of a heart attack; in Miami...
...Napoleon advance on Moscow? Why did Harold Stassen run for Mayor of Philadelphia? Why did the King of Scotland accept that weekend invitation at the Macbeths'? Why did Marcello Mastroianni and Peter Sellers -international stars who can pick their scripts and name their salaries-waste themselves on these low-explosive, misfiring bombs...