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National Chairman (in effect, campaign manager): Arthur Summerfield...
Republican Strategy Boafd, headed by Summerfield: Senator Dirksen; Representative Leonard Hall of New York, a Deweyman and chairman of the House Campaign Committee; Wayne Hood, Republican state chairman in Wisconsin; Robert Humphreys, former I.N.S. writer and Newsweek editor, in charge of publicity; Wesley Roberts, Kansas public-relations man who did brilliant work for Ike at Chicago, in charge of organization...
...last week. Next morning the new national committee met for the first time, dispatched a subcommittee to get Candidate Ike Eisenhower's ideas on Gabrielson's successor. When Ike had given his views and specified a Midwesterner, the committee chose Michigan's national committeeman, Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield...
...Chairman Summerfield, 53, is a wealthy Flint, Mich. Chevrolet dealer, who entered politics in the early '40s. In 1948 Summerfield led a movement to get the Republican nomination for Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg. This year Summerfield kept his important Michigan delegation on the fence right up to convention time, finally went (35-11) for Ike on the first ballot...
...sense-making rules change, the Republicans expanded the national committee to include-in addition to one committeeman and committeewoman from each state-all state G.O.P. chairmen whose states go Republican in a presidential election, or elect a Republican governor, or send a G.O.P. majority to Congress. This change gave Summerfield a 138-member national committee, the largest in G.O.P. history...