Word: strategists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five-Minute Spots. Between photo sessions, Nominee Stevenson got some important work done. He watched the Republican Convention on TV, frequently jotting down notes and statements which he handed to Press Aide Roger Tubby. There were endless conferences with his staff on both organizational and political matters. Result: Master Strategist Jim Finnegan (TIME, Aug. 27) was named campaign manager for both Adlai and Running Mate Estes Kefauver; onetime (1946) Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt, who headed Stevenson's 1952 campaign, became "personal adviser" and "Coordinator of the Campaign Division"; Washington Attorney George Ball was designated "Coordinator of Public Relations"; Clayton...
Techniques: Meticulous planner, canny strategist, he worked from file cards showing names, family and business connections, clubs, hobbies, likes, dislikes of all 1956 convention delegates and alternates. After Stevenson's California victory, Finnegan crossed Kefauver off his list, recognized Harriman as Stevenson's foremost opponent. He roused Stevenson (who was ready to take it easy), began shuttling him into the West. On a plane to Denver, Adlai complained: "Why do I have to make all these trips?" "Because," said Finnegan evenly, "Averell Harriman might beat you." Adlai stared at him hard, breathed: "Incredible...
...around the clock to corral Kefauver strays, wound up with some success in such farm states as Minnesota, Wisconsin. Iowa. Iowa Democratic Chairman Jake More, Kefauverite leader of the 48-man convention delegation, announced that he was switching to Harriman. And by some mysterious magic, Harriman's convention strategist, ex-National Chairman Frank McKinney, arrived at the conclusion that Harriman would still get 450 on the first ballot...
...cheering Sir Anthony Eden's Palmerstonian boast that the Royal Navy "will take care of" any Egyptian warships on the loose, the House of Commons, like the French Assembly, adjourned for the summer. But the urgency was real. Air Marshal Sir John Slessor, great airman turned topflight military strategist, spoke for many Britons when he said, "We are faced today with a challenge in the Middle East potentially no less mortal than that in the Europe of 1938-though far more easily countered if we have the courage." The comparison on everybody's lips was Hitler. This...
...last week Allen, without Presley, was decisively beaten by Sullivan. The answer to the question was plain, and to no one plainer than to Ed Sullivan himself. Without batting an eye, Strategist Sullivan dropped his week-old scruples, signed the Pelvis for three appearances on his show at eight-week intervals, beginning in the fall. Sullivan will pay 21-year-old Presley the astronomical price of $50,000, or close to $17,000 per appearance-$2,000 more than he could have had him for if he had made up his mind a week earlier...