Guy George Gabrielson's troubled term as chairman of the Republican National Committee expired with the last rap of the convention gavel last week. Next morning the new national committee met for the first time, dispatched a subcommittee to get Candidate Ike Eisenhower's ideas on Gabrielson's successor. When Ike had given his views and specified a Midwesterner, the committee chose Michigan's national committeeman, Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield.
Chairman Summerfield, 53, is a wealthy Flint, Mich. Chevrolet dealer, who entered politics in the early '40s. In 1948 Summerfield led a movement to get the Republican nomination...
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