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...entering the ring, others might be kayoed with one presidential primary punch. There will always be more to take their places, but as of this week, six Democrats had emerged from the 1958 elections looking fittest. The six: Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy, Texas' Senator Lyndon Johnson, California's Governor-elect Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, and New Jersey's Governor Robert Meyner...
...calls from newly elected Democrats, greeting visitors, wheeling and dealing as the Democratic Party's leader-in-action. Pat Brown, who needs to get himself known outside California, was off on a get-acquainted tour, visiting such elder Democrats as Adlai Stevenson, Averell Harriman and Harry Truman. Stu Symington was vacationing in Puerto Rico; his strategy has been to keep quiet and let his competitors knock one another off. And Jack Kennedy was campaigning in Alaska-just as he has been campaigning ever since 1956 in a marathon effort to make friends and influence people...
...vivacity, that is called for." Senator Humphrey might have been describing a party after his own image. But as he spoke, he realized that his chief competition might well come from someone less progressive, less adventurous, less international, less vigorous and certainly less vivacious-someone like Fellow Midwesterner Stuart Symington...
...Symington: Everybody's Second...
Missouri's Stuart Symington. Running hard for prestige purposes against weak opposition, he bettered his 1952 showing, won a 375,000 plurality to establish a Missouri off-year record. Symington's advantage: he is No. 2 on nearly every list, presumably would pick up strong second-ballot support...