The Manchester Guardian's Alistair Cooke has one of the hardest one-man jobs going: the entire U.S. is his beat. Frequently Cooke's tours are too fast to be anything but flashy; but sometimes he displays flashes of real insight. A few appeared last week in his reports on Republican hopefulsDewey, Stassen and Taft. (He notably omitted any mention of Vandenberg.) Excerpts:
¶ "A sceptical visitor to the Governor's mansion at Albany is shocked to find that the Governor's lieutenants are not party hacks but men of national, even international reputation . . . That Dewey...
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