THE MINNEAPOLIS STAR WASHINGTON LETTER ADLAI AGAIN SAYS 'NO!' -- EMPHATICALLY

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 13, 2013
• Sequence Number: 135
• Publication Date: January 23, 1960
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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CIA-RDP80M01009A000500610135-9 OLIS STAR
2A :CF Sat., Jan. 23, 1960
REPUBLICAN RIBBING
Stevenson seems to be getting an actual
ribbing from central intelligence Director
Allen Dulles (right) while Mrs. Eugene
Meyer (center) looks- on. Dulles was one
of several prominent ReOublicans attend-
ing Mrs. Meyer's party for the ex-governor.
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WASHINGTON LETTER
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Adlai Again
Says 'No!'
Emphatically
By BETTE BEALE
Tlie reluctance of Democrats to even con-
siaer another presidential candidate when in
tile vicinity of Adlai Stevenson was so ap-
parent the other evening.
'Mrs. Eugene Meyer, widow of the Wash-
ington Post publisher, tossed a party for
Stevenson to introduce him to all the am-
bassadors from the Latin American coun-
tries he will visit next month.
:Adlai, who announced his South American
tour long before President Eisenhower dis-
closed his, and who leaves two weeks be-
fore Ike, said of his trip, "I feel that I am
being followed." "By whom?" someone
asjced. "By an elephant."
bigwig Democrats flocked by the dozen
to the cocktail-supper. There were some
prominent Republicans, too, but it was the
Democrats who looked unhappy when you
asked who their candidate was, excluding
Stevenson. They simply weren't excluding
him and that was that.
"Inasmuch as there are more Democrats
than Republicans in the country," observed
one guest, "if Adlai Stevenson could convey
to the general public the electric personality
that he invariably conveys in the drawing
room, he could win the election hands down.
But oddly enough the public image of a man
frequently bears little resemblance to the
private image."
;Someone asked Adlai if he liked the chap-
tet on himself in the book, "Candidates
1&f?0." He certainly did, he said. He read it
with increasing interest. "Finally," he ex-
clamed with a grin, "I rose in a state of
delirium and said 'I am for that guy!'"
before the party was' over, someone in-
evitably put the old question to the two-
title presidential candidate: Would he run
again in 1960?
'"No!" said Stevenson, emphatically, and
all the humor was drained from his face as
he looked the questioner straight in the eye:
Most controversial dinner party to be held
in Washington in many a moon is the Re-
publican "Dinners With Ike," one of the 180
such fund-raising dinners scheduled across
the country.
What makes this one so controversial is
thA New York Gov. Rockefeller is to be the
ggest speaker and Hollywood star George
Murphy, who's running the closed circuit
television program for all 80 dinners, is 100
pet cent for Vice President Nixon.
Rockefeller Murphy Nixon
Prom the first, Murphy has objected to
Rcickefeller's appearance on the TV show
that will include President Eisenhower's
speech in Los Angeles, Nixon's in Chicago
and Thruston Morton's in New York. From
the first the local GOP committee has in-
sisted that the nation's capital should be
reptesented in the closed circuit program re-
gardless of who's speaking.
Rockefeller finally boiled over last Mon-
day when he discovered that there wouldn't
even be a head table at the dinner and that
the TV camera probably wouldn't focus on
him at all, but that Washington might be
represented by a GOP housewife or the
Howard university choir.
He not only demanded that there be the
customary head table, but his office leaked
the information that Nelson's speech will be
very laudatory of the President but won't
eveln mention Nixon's name.
As a result of all this unaccustomed bick-
ering among GOP ranks, the dinner here on
Jail. 27 will be the best attended and best
covered function in town.
ABOUT TOWN: The state department
throwing a fit because yours truly broke
the news that foreign service officer Fraser
Wilkins will be the first American ambassa-
dor to Cyprus over a month before Cyprus
is to become a republic. The cables from
Europe began to pour in. ?
Mrs. Herbert May in chinchilla cape sit-
ting shoulder to shoulder with Mme. Mikhail
Menshikov in mink-trimmed Persian lamb at
the: Moscow State Symphony concert. The
Mays were guests of Soviet Ambassador
and Mme. Menshikov.
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