One Sunday evening, as a February wind knifed across Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill, four members of the new, reform-minded Republican Assembly knocked on the door of William Thacher Longstreth. The four had come to extend an invitation. It was worded to appeal to Longstreth as a former Princeton football star. an advertising executive and a lifelong Republican.
Said the spokesman, referring to the woes of boss-ridden Philadelphia Republicanism: "We're back on our two-yard line, but I think I see a chink of light through the line and a way to go all the way...
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