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...Ardent Stevensonian Jane Warner Dick stumped for her longtime friend and Illinois neighbor Adlai in his 1948 gubernatorial campaign; in 1952, taking time off from social-welfare work, she became vice chairman of the National Volunteers for Stevenson. In 1956 she took to the hustings again, proved herself as a front-line speaker and strategist capable of winning over almost everyone but her Republican husband. Office Equipment Executive Edison Dick. Last week the petite, 54-year-old grandmother of five was again working madly for Adlai, this time as the newly appointed U.S. representative on the Social Commission of UNESCO...
...illusions." Milwaukee-born, Minow was named the outstanding graduate of Northwestern University's law school in 1950, went to work as an administrative assistant to Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson after a spell as clerk to the late Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson. An aggressively loyal Stevensonian, Minow campaigned for the Governor (now his fellow partner in the law firm of Stevenson, Rifkind & Wirtz) in both 1952 and 1956, did his best to try to persuade Adlai not to fight Kennedy for the 1960 presidential nomination...
George W. Ball, 51, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs. Another Stevensonian, Lawyer Ball was executive director of Adlai's volunteer groups in the 1952 campaign, took charge of his candidate's public relations in 1956. He is no stranger to Treasury corridors. After his graduation from Northwestern's law school in 1933, he served two years in Treasury during the yeasty reign of Henry Morgenthau Jr. before going into private practice in Chicago. Ball was a wartime federal gadfly for the Lend-Lease Administration and Foreign Economic Administration-experience that proved useful in his postwar...
...would have dismissed as preposterous a prediction that three weeks before the end Nixon would be slipping behind, with omens of defeat swirling about him. The strange 1960 campaign has gone through three distinct phases. After the confused wrestling at the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, with the idealistic Stevensonian liberals outraged by what they considered the Kennedy steamroller tactics, the Republican Convention in Chicago conveyed an impression of unity, earnestness and respectability. Nixon's acceptance speech went over with the TV audience a lot better than Kennedy's, with its ill-advised rewriting of Lincoln, his "malice...
Something resembling a Stevensonian cult has formed around Bagwell. At Michigan State, some members of Delta Sigma Pi fraternity sold a pint of blood to swell the Bagwell campaign chest. The statewide Bagwell Boosters number 12,000 members, more than Michigan's Citizens for Eisenhower at highest tide. Negroes have formed an Elephant Club for Bagwell. In Wayne County, the strongest Democratic thralldom (67%) north of the Mason-Dixon line, 4,500 Working Women for Bagwell are ringing doorbells, penning postcards, phoning friends to drum up votes. The long-dormant Michigan Federation of Republican Labor, revolving around former A.F.L...