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Commander Harold Stassen stayed as close to his South St. Paul home as he possibly could. Like many another Naval officer, he came back from his year in the South Pacific with a hunger for familiar voices, for the sight of his wife and his father and mother and for the taste of things like farm-fresh milk and home-baked cake. He spent hours discussing a doll house with his two-year-old daughter Kathleen-she had learned to talk while he was away. When he went to Washington, D.C. last week, it was on Navy business. He parried...
...late. For Tom Dewey's men were not calling but receiving. Harold Stassen's men sat dutifully and dourly around hotel lobbies, just in case a freak bolt of lightning should strike. John Bricker fought on, he spoke his familiar views with familiar vigor at a jampacked press conference, provided the only good bar for thirsty newsmen. His managers buttonholed and cajoled tirelessly. But hoopla was not enough in Chicago in June 1944. The Dewey nomination rolled...
Illinois' tousled Representative Everett M. Dirksen, who is really campaigning for second place, wound up his tour at Rockford, Ill. And Washington newsmen heard that Lieut. Commander Harold E. Stassen, talking to a friend under a palm tree in the South Pacific, had said he would not stop presentation of his name to the convention...
Frogs. In Pueblo, Colo., the annual frog-jumping contest of the Cheese Knife Club was won by Dewey, who defeated Stassen, MacArthur, Bricker, Warren and Willkie. Jumper Roosevelt did not compete...
...intriguing minor facts of the GOPresidential race last week was that Lieut. Commander Harold Stassen actually had more convention delegates officially pledged to him (33) than had Governor Tom Dewey (29). This fact will be significant only if Dewey fails to get the nomination on an early ballot. For Tom Dewey last week had another 377 delegates an nounced as "committed" to him. Even without an additional 403 claimed as leaning in his favor, his total was thus only 124 short of the 530 required for nomination...