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Tennessee (32): Now the unit-rule delegation need not even give Tennessean Kefauver a "courtesy" vote (though Estes is a convention delegate). Under the leadership of Governor Frank Clement, the convention keynoter, 32 for Stevenson...
Eager friends of Border-Stater Clement moved in fast on behalf of their man. Clement, quietly staked out in the Stevenson camp (to the disgust of Fellow Tennessean Estes Kefauver), was generally acceptable to both North and South because of his "local-level" approach to school desegregation. Far more important than these attitudes was the fact that Boy Wonder Clement is a golden-throated political evangelist with an inexhaustible gift for fervent oratory (see box) and surefire TV appeal...
Next, Gallup matched the Tennessean against the field in the South. Five months ago Kefauver was the favorite presidential candidate of only 12% of Southern Democrats, running behind both Stevenson (38%) and Georgia's Richard Russell (17%). By last week's report the figures are: Stevenson 28%, Kefauver 26%, Russell 13%. Finally, Gallup tested Estes against President Eisenhower among all voters, and found that, though Ike still has a big lead (59% to 38%), Kefauver has nonetheless made progress since February 1955, when a similar poll gave Ike 60% and Kefauver 34%. Dr. Gallup's last word...
Thereupon he began barking up the Tennessean's tree. One day at noontime, Stevenson made his way along four blocks of Los Angeles' bustling Eighth Street, stopped strangers on the sidewalk, reached up to shake hands with truck drivers who had stopped for traffic lights, dropped in at a barbershop, paused at a fruit stand to buy an apple, which he munched as he moved on. In the garment district he crawled up on the back of a truck and spoke to the crowd, then sat at a diner counter and had a corned beef on rye, with...
Stevenson's staff handed out a series of quotations from Kefauver's past utterances selected to show that the Tennessean has taken the Southern Democrats' side on the race issue. At one point...