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...York Timesman; Secretary Paul Lockwood, an associate from his D.A. days; Press Secretary Jim Hagerty. Tall, lean Hamilton Gaddis, patronage dispenser of the Dewey Albany administration, preceded the train as advance agent. Behind the lines, a mammoth research bureau, occupying the top floor of Albany's De Witt Clinton Hotel, steadily went on digging up facts & figures...
...Witt stay faithful...
Suitable Match. Outside the Stadium entrances, in the long perambulatory corridor, the cardboard placards mounted on poles (a blown-up Dewey photograph; Dewey the People's Choice; Dewey Witt Win) were piled in chin-high clumps. They were the same nononsense, black-lettered placards which had decorated the sober-looking Dewey headquarters at the Stevens Hotel for two days. Delegates who had visited the businesslike headquarters to look in awe at the machinelike efficiency of the Dewey staff had already seen them...
Just after pressing the buttons that started his new Chicago Sun, Marshall Field III had his picture taken with four of his chief aides: George De Witt, John Dienhart, Rex Smith and Publisher Silliman Evans. The group picture was hung in the Sun's cramped little wire room. De Witt, Dienhart and Smith fell by the wayside in the first eight months; some office commentator marked an X over each departed face. Sixteen months ago somebody put a large question mark over the heavy-jowled likeness of highly paid publisher "Ivans. He frequently joked about...
...Fearless Fosdick . . . From this corner, it looks highly problematical that the boy with take over the Regimental Reins Genesis of the rumor is questionable, and the whole thing could be relegated to pure conjecture, according to our usually informed sources . . . Take a pill with the current scuttle about Witt's joining the typing staff...