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...York's Governor Tom Dewey paid a neighborly call on Massachusetts last week-his first since the 1944 presidential campaign. The occasion was Springfield's Eastern States Exposition, New England's biggest agricultural fair...
...nodded agreement. Take Massachusetts, said Bradford: its delegates were going to be for Favorite Son Leverett Saltonstall as long as he was in the running. Bob Bradford hastened to add that there was no thought of a stop-Dewey movement. That was all right with Dewey; his mission to Springfield was to sound out New England leaders for second-choice support, to make friends and influence people. He got no promises, and no rebuffs...
...list of "leading candidates." Tom Dewey was No. 1. The others, in Saltonstall's order: Warren, Taft, Stassen, Eisenhower, and Speaker Joe Martin. That did not mean that Saltonstall was out as a New England favorite, or that he had given Dewey his blessing. But Farmer Tom left Springfield in a good mood...
...Kelly did not intend to be thwarted again by the Commerce Commission. He went to Springfield and talked bipartisan turkey with Governor Dwight Green. Soon afterwards, in 1945, the state legislature passed a law setting up the Transit Authority. In another referendum, Chicago voters approved...
Georgia Sothern, grand old (32, she says) lady of the U.S. striptease business, spiced up the hot spell by paying a surprise call on her husband at a Springfield, 111. hotel room. As surprised as Husband Harry Finkelstein was his companion of the moment, Sally Rand, grand old (43, she says) lady of the fandanglers. Finkelstein was just treating her for heat exhaustion, protested Miss Rand, but Mrs. Finkelstein had them both arrested for disorderly conduct. Miss Rand's valedictory to the press as the police closed in: "I have nothing to hide...