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...many young Republicans like myself, TIME'S condensed look at Harold Stassen [TIME, April 26] was right up our alley...
Ohio was the best proof of that. Though both Harold Stassen and Robert Taft immediately ran out their victory flags, the result of last week's Ohio primary was a flat standoff. Stassen had picked up only nine of 23 contested delegates-three fewer than he had said he would. Despite Taft's confident prediction that he would lose but one delegate, he had lost nine in his own home state...
...Stassen bandwagon had not been brought to a bumping stop, but it had at least been slowed down. Taft's showing was enough to keep him from being knocked out of the running entirely, but it was not good enough to shoot him into the lead. And the best that Tom Dewey could hope to do in Oregon was to recover some of the popular support he had lost after Wisconsin and Nebraska. Actually the primaries had decided nothing: Dewey was still the probable leader on the first ballot, followed by Stassen and Taft...
Approval of the charter adds AYD to a roster of political clubs in the Radcliffe Yard which includes a Students for Stassen group, a Young Republican Club, and a Wallace Committee...
...avowed candidate for the Presidential nominations of either Party received a favorable majority in the survey, but Stassen led the list of possible White House residents with 24 percent supporting him. Vandenberg and Eisenhower followed closely, with Henry Wallace boosted by 6.5 percent and President Truman backed by 4.4 percent...