Fever in Michigan

The presidential boom for Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg was on. The Detroit News published an excited editorial entitled: "Vandenberg: Man of the Hour!" Some 700 Michigan Republicans gathered at the swank Detroit Athletic Club to eat squab, lay plans for raising a $950,000 campaign fund, and to extol the virtues of Van. Cried Governor Kim Sigler: "Any influence I have will be used to convince the convention . . . that he will be a sure winner!"

Maine's G.O.P. Senator Owen Brewster, visiting Detroit, caught the fever. He announced that Vandenberg was growing daily as a dark horse, even predicted that Vandenberg would lead popular polls "in a few weeks." He added flatly: "Vandenberg can win!"

Senator Vandenberg himself had nothing to say. It was impossible, however, not to attach a certain significance to his silence. Eleven months ago he had issued a pointed, eloquent statement that he would not "connive" to get the presidency. But as Sigler & Co. began trumpeting last week, he uttered no word of rebuke.

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