If, as Dick Nixon said, Bill Scranton was the man to take a look at, some influential Republicans were following his advice. About 20 of them traveled recently to Philadelphia for an unpublicized luncheon meeting with the Pennsylvania Governor. It was held in the office of Tom McCabe, vice president of Scott Paper Co., longtime Pennsylvania Republican money raiser and an ardent Scranton admirer.
The guest list read like an East Coast Republicans' Who's Who. Among those attending: former U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell, political strategist for Tom Dewey and Dwight Eisenhower; CBS Board...