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Despite a football tradition much like the presidential electoral history of Harold Stassen. Princeton savors confrontations with Harvard. Today the Tigers arrive in Cambridge with one of their best chances in several years to dump their Big Three rival...
...others so far: former Texas Governor John Connally, former CIA Director George Bush, Senator Robert Dole, Representative Philip Crane, Los Angeles Businessman Benjamin Fernandez and Perennial Candidate Harold Stassen...
...elect Durenberger. But he predicted: "It's going to take a few years for the D.F.L. to react to the loss of Hubert, and then it will be back." Republicans nonetheless had reason to savor their good fortune. One of the cheeriest of all was former Governor Harold Stassen, the boy wonder of Minnesota politics in 1938, before his party was routed by Humphrey's D.F.I Vowed the never-give-up Stassen: "We are going to rebuild the Republican Party in Minnesota." Stassen, 71, was so buoyed by his old party's rebirth that he promptly announced...
...came to our lunch of eight people two days after the March 18 Minnesota primary of 1952; and he was an Eisenhower none of us had ever known: pink-cheeked as always, but bubbling, expansive, joyful. The Minnesota primary, just over, had been contested by both Taft and Stassen, Minnesota's favorite son. And Eisenhower, not listed on the ballot, on a write-in vote, had come in second to Stassen with 37.2% of the total to Stassen's 44.4% on the regular ballot! (Ike's one-time chief, Douglas MacArthur, it should be noted, won only...
Appropriately, the reporter who interviewed Weinstein for this week's story was Senior Correspondent James Bell, who covered the Hiss trials for TIME. "I had spent all of 1948 on the campaign trail with Harold Stassen, Harry Truman, Earl Warren and Tom Dewey," recalls Bell. "I was the only member of the Washington bureau who was totally ignorant of the case, and I felt none of the emotion that appeared to grip my colleagues who had covered the Hiss story on Capitol Hill. It was precisely for that reason that I was picked to report the trial." For TIME...