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...everyone was watching in next week's Minnesota primary was sitting on the sidelines. Harold Stassen had risked a small loss against a major gain in Nebraska-and missed (TIME, June 24). Now, in his home state, he was staking his political future and his chances for the GOPresidential nomination in 1948 on the belief that his handpicked Governor, Ed Thye, could beat four-term isolationist Senator Henrik Shipstead for the G.O.P. senatorial nomination...
...start it had looked like a shoo-in for the Stassen camp. There was so much rejoicing that "Harold is home again," so much confidence in the prestige he had gained at the San Francisco Conference, so much faith in the appeal of the Stassen war record as Admiral Halsey's flag secretary that it seemed nothing could go wrong...
...vote-getter in his own right. Friendly, honest, an able administrator and an indefatigable campaigner in smalltown, door-to-door electioneering, he had piled up the biggest majority in Minnesota history when he ran for re-election to the Governor's chair in 1944. Purring with power, the Stassen machine coasted easily...
...saved his biggest rocks for Harold Stassen. Trumpeting "dictatorship," Shipstead hinted at "small, select, secret meetings" with the "bosses in the East." Cried he: "They have prostituted the primary . . . [Stassen] must have eaten pretty red meat at his luncheons and dinners on his trips to New York...
...Since his discharge from the Navy in November, presidential aspirant Stassen has made more than 100 speeches in 21 states and the District of Columbia, from the Lumbermen's Convention in New York to the Junior Chamber of Commerce in San Angelo, Tex., from Harvard's Godkin lectures to tiny Principia College in Elsah, Ill., before veterans, Rotarians, Kiwanians, the FBI. At fees ranging from nothing to $1,000, a conservative estimate of his gross...