Who's for Whom

In Florida, post-convention switches in political allegiance produced a high-level standoff. After resigning as Palm Beach County Republican committeewoman, Mrs. James Dinsmore Tew II last week announced that she planned to campaign for Adlai Stevenson and "never felt stronger about a candidate in my life." The same day Mrs. Bessie L. Boyd announced her resignation as Democratic committeewoman from Dade County (Miami). Said Mrs. Boyd: "We need a change in Washington."

Other notable switches:

P: To Eisenhower, Oklahoma's former Democratic Congressman Phil Ferguson, because "as long as Oklahoma Democrats follow Bob Kerr ... the Democratic Party cannot be sound in Oklahoma."

P: To Eisenhower, Julius H. Requard, Maryland delegate to the 1952 Democratic National Convention. Reason: Builder Requard found the appointment of ex-Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt as Adlai Stevenson's personal campaign manager "just too much for me to stomach."

P: To Eisenhower, Mrs. Fiorello La Guardia, widow of the famed "Little Flower," who, while mayor of New York City, helped organize the American Labor Party. Mrs. La Guardia supported Roosevelt in 1944, Truman in 1948.

The famed Baltimore Sunpapers also lined up behind Eisenhower.

Uncommitted once again was blonde, beauteous Faye Emerson (No. 3 of Elliott Roosevelt's four wives), who last May appeared in New York's star-studded Cit-izens-for-Eisenhower Rally, but now wants to hear more about Adlai Stevenson.

Pushing even farther out of the G.O.P. corral was Chicago Insurance Broker Hermon Dunlap ("Dutch") Smith, a Republican who headed the Stevenson-for-Governor Committee in the 1948 Illinois gubernatorial campaign, last week planned to organize a national Citizens-for-Stevenson organization.

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