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...respectful distance, other governors and correspondents watched them. "There may be the Republican presidential ticket in 1952," said a reporter. "They might just toss a coin to see who gets top place." He was talking about California's Governor Earl Warren and Pennsylvania's Governor James Duff...
...nearly everybody else last week as governors of 43 states and two territories gathered for the 42nd annual Governors' Conference. Tom Dewey, usually the star of the show, was all but ignored now that he had decided to take a breather from politics. Both Warren and Duff had just scored thumping primary victories in two of the nation's biggest states. At press conferences, Warren was relaxed and expansive. Duff, in what his personal publicity men warned him was his first appearance on the "big time," was nervous at first, clasping and unclasping his big, brown-freckled hands...
...governor, Duff soon ran afoul of Grundy's Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association when he insisted that they clean up the sewage that their mines and factories spewed into the state's rivers. He turned a deaf ear to pleas for accustomed favors. Snapped Duff: "If these birds think that the general run of people are interested in watching them make the rich richer and the poor poorer, they're crazy...
Nickels & Poets. A big man, Duff is outspoken, disarmingly candid, unaffectedly informal. In Harrisburg, all anyone needs to talk to the governor is a nickel and a pay telephone. At the summer mansion at Indiantown Gap, he putters around the greenhouse and garden, casually returning the waves of passing neighbors. He subscribes to the Manchester Guardian, firmly supports bipartisan foreign policy. His other favorite reading is the seed catalogue and the Elizabethan poets, whom he can quote at length from memory...
...election this fall is still to be won, but Duff is given a good chance of beating plodding Senator Francis Myers, Democratic whip in the 81st Congress. The Democrats have hopefully stored away all the charges of vote buying and fraud hurled by the battling Republicans, and last week they were wondering aloud whether Grundymen would work very hard for a man who has sworn to strip them of all patronage. But Jim Duff had no regrets. Said he: "It was a fight which had to take place, because the party could not go two ways at the same time...