DEMOCRATS: Ave & Adlai

New York City's Democratic Boss Carmine De Sapio, whose postcard polls of the party faithful always brought forth the desired results, was cheered last week by a presidential preference survey of 200,000 registered New York State Democrats. The reported results: 81% for De Sapio's man, Governor Averell Harriman, and 14% for Adlai Stevenson. In the Gallup poll, the Democratic picture was different: 55% for Stevenson, 16% for Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver and only 6% for Harriman. Whatever the figures, the fight last week was on. While the Keef doggedly mugged his way around the world (see PEOPLE), Adlai...

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