POLITICAL NOTES: Off the Cuff

¶The C.I.O. Political Action Committee's Jack Kroll, who liked the looks of William O. Douglas before the Democratic Convention, told a union convention in Milwaukee that President Truman "has a new look now, and I must say that the new look becomes him."

¶Ex-Republican National Chairman B. Carroll Reece answered his telephone at 7:40 a.m. in his home at Johnson City, Tenn., confirmed a reporter's hunch that he would run for the Senate. Said Reece: "It is my duty to be available."

¶South Carolina's Governor J. Strom Thurmond, candidate of the bolting...

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