A surprising number of American boys (& girls) grow up to run for President. In 1952, in addition to Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower, there are at least eleven presidential nominees. These eleven are the candidates of the "third parties" —serious, sinister or silly. Among this year's notable third parties:
Progressive. For President, wealthy San Francisco Lawyer Vincent Hallinan, who recently spent five months in jail for contempt of court during the perjury trial of Labor Leader Harry Bridges; for Vice President, Mrs. Charlotta Bass, 62-year-old former publisher of a California Negro newspaper. Candidate Hallinan, whose followers favor immediate disarmament and "cooperation" with Russia, last week asked Harry Truman for the same intelligence briefing given Adlai Stevenson and offered Dwight Eisenhower. He got no answer. Hallinan's predecessor as Progressive candidate in 1948 was Henry A. Wallace, who has repudiated the party as a Communist front.
Socialist. For President, 55-year-old Darlington Hoopes, a Reading, Pa. lawyer; for Vice President, Samuel Friedman, second in command of a New York social workers' union. Hoopes and Friedman hope to get on the ballot in 25 states, plan a nationwide campaign to promote the Socialist gospel.
Socialist Labor. For President, Eric Hass, editor of the party organ, The Weekly People; for Vice President, Stephen Emery, a New York subway dispatcher. Hass, who dismisses British Laborites as "phony Socialists," is plumping for establishment of a "Socialist Industrial Republic" with a legislature based on industrial rather than geographic divisions.
Socialist Workers. For President, Farrell Dobbs, 45, former A.F.L. Teamsters' Union organizer; for Vice President, 35-year-old Mrs. Myra Tanner Weiss, party organizer in Los Angeles. As followers of the late Leon Trotsky, the Socialist Workers are considered fallen angels (or "lousy deviationists") by orthodox Communists. This year the Socialist Workers Party will try to get on the ballot in 20 states, will campaign for immediate U.S. withdrawal from the Korean war.
Prohibition. For President, Stuart Hamblen, cowboy singer, former racehorse owner and "converted alcoholic"; for Vice President, Dr. Enoch Arden Holtwick, retired history professor of Greenville, Ill. The Prohibitionists hope to get on the ballot in 30 states.
Church of God Bible. For President, Bishop Homer A. Tomlinson, general overseer of the Church of God; for Vice President, Bishop Willie I. Bass, North Carolina overseer of the church. Tomlinson and Bass, who favor righteousness and peace, hope to get on the ballot in 30 states, but admit that New York looks like the only sure bet. They plan to stage a five-day peace conference this month at Childersburg, Ala., the feature of which will be the beating of swords into plowshares. From a blacksmith, Bishop Tomlinson recently took lessons in sword-into-plowshare-beating and has been practising the art regularly in his Queens Village, N.Y. home.