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When he is not cartooning for The New Yorker, James Stevenson draws for children: nine of his own, plus the thousands of Stevensonians who fell in love with more than a dozen previous books. For The Baby Uggs Are Hatching (Greenwillow; $9.50) he adds a dash of Lear to Jack Prelutsky's hilarious nonsense verse about the Sneepies ("... lying in a pile,/ are still and silent all the while./ They stay beside my underwear .../ I wonder why they like it there."), the Smasheroo, the Dreary Dreeze, the Flotterzott and other beings unmentioned by zoologists but familiar to any child...
...with the six Presidents from Kennedy through Reagan, you can draw up a list of defeated candidates and defeated contenders for nomination that may well include some better presidential material than some of the Presidents we actually got. On the Democratic side: Edmund Muskie, Hubert Humphrey, Scoop Jackson, Adlai Stevenson (still a factor in 1960). Republican: Nelson Rockefeller, William Scranton, Howard Baker, George Bush, John Connally...
When Big Jim Thompson voted on Tuesday morning, a winner's smile flashed across his broad face. Only two days before, a Gallup poll showed the bluff 6-ft. 6-in. Republican Governor leading his mild-mannered opponent, Adlai Stevenson III, by 16 points. But when Thompson went to bed at 2 Wednesday morning, the corners of his smile had turned downward: he was leading by just over 1%. By midday Thursday, as votes were still being tabulated, he was wearing a full-fledged frown of dismay: with more than 3.5 million votes cast, the once confident Thompson...
...paper, conditions seemed tailor-made for a resounding Democratic victory. Illinois is economically depressed. Plants have shuttered or hightailed it out of the state in record numbers. Stevenson, the thoughtful eldest son of the state's two-time Democratic presidential nominee, has the shiniest Democratic name around. How could he lose...
...Democratic ones. But when the final precincts were tabulated on Friday, they provided a winning edge to a greatly relieved Thompson. In an emotional speech, Thompson vowed that he would not let the victory be taken away. Said he: "We beat 'em and we beat 'em good." Stevenson declared that victory was his, but would not say whether he would ask for a recount if the vote is certified later this month. In the past, such recounts, which are paid for by the requesting candidate, resulted in shifts of 5,000 to 7,000 votes, a potentially significant...