POLITICAL NOTES: Off the Cuff

Visiting in Chicago, pipe-puffing Guy George Gabrielson, new national chairman of the Republican Party, passed on to 140 Cook County party bosses a suggestion from General Dwight D. Eisenhower: "I hope the Republicans now will develop party principles so that even a person as dumb as I am will be able to tell the difference between the Republican and Democratic parties."

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