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...psychological moment on the first ballot. Brownell had made no deal with the Minnesotans; he had simply made sure that they were exposed to facts which he knew would bring them around. Triple Telephoning. The best example of Brownell at work was his negotiating with John Fine and Arthur Summerfield. He parceled other states out to his aides, but kept crucial, uncommitted Pennsylvania and Michigan to handle himself. Brownell's information from his contacts in those states was so good that he could tell Fine and Summerfield things they didn't know about their own delegations. His reputation...
There's the Rub. In Arlington, Va., Summerfield McCarteney, 60, told police that a woman had stopped him to ask directions to Falls Church, offered to cure his limp by massaging his back, taken $265 from his wallet...
...When Michigan's Arthur Summerfield becomes Postmaster General next month, he will resign as Republican national chairman. Last week most of the G.O.P. speculation about Summerfield's successor was beamed toward one man: lean, relaxed Charles Wesley (Wes) Roberts, 48. Roberts was working on his family's weekly Oskaloosa Independent (circ. 1,400) when he plunged into Republican politics in 1936. With time out for a World War II stint in the Marines, he served the Kansas G.O.P. and its state administrations in various jobs until 1950, when he got out of active politics to start...
ARTHUR ELLSWORTH SUMMERFIELD, 53, automobile dealer, real-estate man, chairman of the Republican National Committee...
Political Career: One day in 1940, Summerfield went to a Republican rally to hear Candidate Wendell Willkie. Convinced that the hostility of the audience was "a disgrace to the town," he got together with nine other Flint businessmen to organize a Republican campaign committee which gave Willkie a surprisingly large vote in Genesee County that November and helped him carry Michigan. From then on, Summerfield was wed to politics. Appointed finance director of Michigan's Republican state central committee in 1943, he proved so successful in getting contributions that other Republican leaders came to Michigan to find...