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...more candidates take a position like that of Illinois' Republican Candidate Edward Jenison, a formerly staunch Taftman, who is basing his campaign on the Eisenhower popularity, has plastered Springfield with signs reading: "Help Ed, Help Ike, Help You." And California's Mrs. Harriet Enderle is only one of the many Democrats who is running on a Help Ike platform. Says she, in her campaign against G.O.P. Representative James Utt: "I have sought to persuade the voters of this district that I would be of more help to the Republican President than Mr. Utt. If that's riding...
...have one big fact in his favor. He is running under the aegis of Democratic Governor Frank Lausche, who appointed him to the Senate as Bob Taft's replacement. And, in Ohio, the Lausche coattails are second to none-not even Dwight Eisenhower's, to which former Taftman George Bender has clung with might and main. As of last week, Ohio looked like a coattail tossup...
...lifelong Republican, Jenkins has dabbled a bit in politics (e.g., Tennessee manager for Wendell Willkie in 1940), but his name has never been on a ballot. He was a Taftman until the 1952 G.O.P. convention began, and then he flew to Chicago and urged the Tennessee delegation to get behind Eisenhower, "a man who can win." His present attitude about politics is expressed in a characteristically long and rolling comment, which begins: "Apparently my friends are much more interested in my running for the U.S. Senate than I am . . . It's conceivable that the time may come when...
...leading political candidate is Connecticut's ex-U.S. Senator John A. Danaher, 54, a onetime Taftman, who campaigned last year for Eisenhower. Danaher has the backing of Connecticut's Senators Prescott Bush and William Purtell. Danaher's legal background: left Yale Law School in his final year, took his bar exams after clerking in a lawyer's office; now has a substantial practice in Washington, where he mingles law with lobbying. The other candidate is Connecticut's senior U.S. District Judge Carroll C. Hincks, 63, Republican and Yale Law graduate ('14), appointed...
...Mennen Williams), were revealed as ideologically close to Ike. The governors are generally middle-roaders; they favor sound money before tax cuts, a firm foreign policy, the return of power to the states-all pillars of the Eisenhower political philosophy. At first, Utah's J. Bracken Lee, a Taftman from way back, stood out like a sore thumb in his dissent. He denounced the Administration for going "down the same road we did with the New and Fair Deal." But at the convention's end, Lee had some afterthoughts. "I guess...