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Stevenson III) fanned out among the other combustible delegations. Arizona started to burn; it was cooled after a perilously close call. Kansas seemed ready to go; the fire fighters won again. Even at midweek the faction-torn Maryland delegation began thinking about switching to Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington. Jim Finnegan got the word, made an emergency call. "Boys," said Finnegan, by that time on his third pack of Old Golds, "that's all right if it's the best you can do. You can come along later−just for the ride. But just think...
...Truman pronouncement hurt Stevenson, who had been well on the way to a first-ballot victory. It strengthened Harriman and pumped new life into his campaign. The chances of a Harriman-Stevenson deadlock improved the odds on dark-horse candidates, particularly Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington and Texas' master of compromise, U.S. Senator Lyndon Johnson...
North Carolina (36) : Thirty-two for Stevenson, one for Harriman, one for Symington, 1½ undecided-and the hardest-dying one-half vote in the convention for Estes Kefauver...
Vermont (6): At least 5½ for Adlai, with a stubborn one-half for Symington...
...flock around the house all day, every day. Mostly, the Trumans stay out of sight, but sometimes of an evening Harry can be seen in the backyard in an aluminum lawn chair. Bess Truman (who has a political mind of her own and is an enthusiastic admirer of Stuart Symington-toward whom Harry is cool) likes to putter around in her small garden. The day she came home from Europe she was out watering the lawn...