CAMPAIGN: Speechmaking Candidate

To wise guys who have been whispering, "Wait and see—Taft will fade out, then throw his support to Bricker," Ohio's Senator Robert Alphonso Taft and Governor John William Bricker had an answer last week. In Washington, they threw their arms around each other. Governor Bricker, once called a dark horse, said he was a horse of another color, would support Taft to the "last ditch." He frowned officially on a Chicago "Bricker-for-President" headquarters. Still some of the wise guys merely winked.

Whether ponderous Bob Taft gets the Republican nomination or not, nobody winks at his energetic seriousness. He takes many...

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