Rugged & Extensive

As Harry Truman set off on the first leg of his campaign itinerary, Candidate Tom Dewey kept his own plans strictly to himself. The only word from Republican headquarters was the announcement that Running Mate Earl Warren would take off next week for a ten-day tour through twelve Western and border states.

But behind the scenes in Albany, Dewey campaigners were hard at work. Under the direction of State Budget Director John Burton and Banking Superintendent Elliott Bell, a corps of researchers, phrasemakers, specialists, and advisers dug for campaign fodder. One elaborate stunt: a card-index file of every Dewey pronouncement, to be used as a guide for all G.O.P. orators.

Meanwhile Candidate Dewey kept determinedly to the routine he had followed ever since his nomination. He boned up on his facts, pored over a specially prepared chronology of Democratic foreign policy. He soaked up new ideas from a constant stream of visitors--from China's Chen Li-fu to ex-Rival Harold Stassen (who was given the job of rebutting Harry Truman's Labor Day speech). In his few free moments, Dewey relaxed with his family, one day banged out a record 83 in a golf tournament for the press.

When he turned up in Manhattan early last week for the funeral of onetime Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, Tom Dewey had only one brief comment on his campaign. He promised newsmen that when it got under way, it would be "rugged and extensive."

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