Hits & Misses

While the big political guns boomed on Capitol Hill, a rattle of small-arms fire kept the outposts busy.

In Ponca City, Olcla., one T. J. Cuzalina, a druggist who writes and pays for an advertising column in the Ponca City News, announced the winner in his recent Eisenhower jingle contest. Druggist Cuzalina, who claims credit for starting the Eisenhower campaign in Oklahoma two years ago, plunked out $100 for the judges' favorite:

Wake tip, America!

This is the hour!

We need a Man--Draft Eisenhower!

Overlooked among the 7,000 entries:

Eisenhower hits the spot--

Five-star general, that's a lot!

Twice as good for a prexy too,

Eisenhower is the man for you.

In Santa Fe, General Pat Hurley, rambunctious ex-Ambassador to China, asked his friends to dissolve New Mexico's 19 "Hurley-for-President" Clubs, decided to take another crack at the Senate instead. Edged out last time by Democrat Dennis Chavez, Republican Hurley this time would take on shrewd Carl Hatch.

In Omaha, the railroad trainmen's President A. F. Whitney spun like a pinwheel. After Harry Truman broke the railroad strike in 1946, Whitney had bellowed: "You can't make a President out of a ribbon clerk." Now he came out for Truman in '48. Said he: "My good, Christian parents taught me it is a good thing to forgive and forget."

In Washington, Vermont's Senator George Aiken and New Hampshire's Senator Charles Tobey let go a rebel blast against the do-nothing, anti-everything politics of Republican National Chairman B. Carroll Reece. But bumbling Carroll Reece, who has Bob Taft's powerful support, appeared to be in ho danger. The insurgent New England Senators swing little weight around party headquarters.

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