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Illinois. Republican William G. Stratton, 38, defeated Adlai Stevenson's lieutenant governor, Sherwood Dixon, by at least 175,000 votes. Dixon took an early lead, but could not hold...
Dixon's opponent, 38-year-old William G. Stratton, served in Congress (1941-43 and 1944-49) and is currently state treasurer. Slight and hatchet-faced, Stratton, an extreme conservative, is conducting a shrill-voiced campaign primarily against Adlai Stevenson ("The most expensive governor in Illinois history"), and dismisses Dixon as "the hand-picked candidate" of Harry Truman's hand-picked...
Republican Stratton is regarded as an effective campaigner who will beat Dixon unless a Stevenson sweep carries the rest of the ticket along with...
...plot it self is not spectacular. It follows Dean's career with St. Louis, reaching a climax in his disastrous arm injury, and leveling off with his transfer to the Chicago Cubs and final post as a baseball announcer. Though The Pride of St. Louis is basically another Stratton Story, Mankiewicz and Dailey have turned the Dean legend into a good movie in its own right...
...Owen Stratton, associate professor of political science, has been in charge of the program since 1947. He feels that without such training, classroom learning is nothing more than "empty verbalism...