To Candidate Estes Kefauver the New Jersey apple appeared sweet and ripe and ready for picking. Adlai Stevenson was not entered in the New Jersey primary, and Kefauver, who specializes in trouncing state organizations, saw little to fear in the unpledged slate of delegates headed by Governor Robert Meyner and representing the New Jersey regulars. By so underestimating Robert Baumie Meyner, Kefauver got his apple, all right. But it was bitter and overripe and thrown right in his face.
In New Jersey Kefauver waged one of his patented, tireless, poorboy...
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