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Taft supporters tried hard to claim a moral victory for their absent candidate. Said John D. M. Hamilton, Taft's eastern campaign manager: "For a candidate who was supposed to have political appeal, General Eisenhower has made a very sorry showing in New Jersey." But Governor Alfred Driscoll, elected as an Eisenhower delegate after a fierce anti-Driscoll campaign by the Taft forces, snapped out a sharp retort: "A loss by 150,000, in a comparatively small vote in an election conducted in horrible, weather, is certainly not a moral victory. It is a defeat. Mr. Hamilton is still...
Then the people began to have their say. The absent Ike's victory over a campaigning Senator Robert Taft in New Hampshire on March 11 was impressive enough. But when the Republican voters of Minnesota went to the polls through snow and mud and wrote in Ike's name nearly 107,000 times, the clear call was unmistakable. Linked together, the results of New Hampshire and Minnesota became a striking and momentous demonstration that an Eisenhower boom of tremendous proportions is sweeping across the land...
...Keenan, absent from the House because of Illness, could not be reached for comment last night...
...informant: "This New Hampshire play for Eisenhower has turned out sour and that we'll admit." James ("Scotty") Reston of the New York ("We Like Ike") Times was impressed by Taft's "aggressive campaign." He found it more effective than the politicking in behalf of the absent Eisenhower. Wrote Reston: ". . . What does Taft have that Ike doesn't have? The answer seems to be: 'Nothing-but he has it in New Hampshire.' " As for Truman, Reston reported that the "best opinion," which he did not identify, was that the President would win. The Fair-Dealing...
Consistent character is absent from the play as a whole as well. Farce, comedy, and boredom succeed each other slickly at random. Visual gags, political "humor," pseudo-Shavian epigrams, and Joe Miller favorites mingle democratically with a handful of really comic situations...