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...last days before Minnesota's Republican primary, Harold Stassen uncorked his Sunday punch. Across the state streamed a 300-car caravan of bustling, energetic, amateur electioneers. At small towns in 60 of Minnesota's 87 counties they stopped, posted placards, distributed campaign throwaways, talked politics with main street loungers...
...last week Harold Stassen knew that his "Paul Revere's Ride," a tested tactic from his 1938 campaign for governor, had routed an already beaten opponent. Instead of the expected close finish, popular Stassenman Ed Thye breezed in ahead of longtime (24 years) isolationist Senator Henrik Shipstead with a 3-to-2 lead. With a near-record Republican turnout, winner Thye looked like a sure bet for the Senate in the fall. His running-mate, Luther Youngdahl, was nominated for the Minnesota governor's chair by an even larger majority...
...presidential aspirant Stassen, the nugget of victory had many facets. He had come back from defeat in the Nebraska primary (TIME, June 24). He had increased his prestige enormously within the Republican party. He had proved that the voters of traditionally isolationist Minnesota were willing to listen to his pro-U.N., pro-British Loan brand of internationalism. Said he: "A decisive victory for a progressive Republican policy...
...week's end the pendulum was swinging back toward Ed Thye and Harold Stassen. But it was going to be close...
Alarmed, Harold Stassen sent down the order: step on the gas. Though he kept mum himself, he was working hard behind the scenes, directing every move, writing or editing most of the speeches. With ten days till election, the outcome was touch...