Who's for Whom

P:Over radio station WGAY of Silver Spring, Md., Dr. Jesse W. Sprowls, professor of abnormal psychology at the University of Maryland, announced that Stevenson will win. His analysis: Stevenson is a typical introvert. Eisenhower a typical extrovert; in times of crisis, American voters generally favor the introvert. P:In the fall edition of the magazine Forecast, Technical Editor Irys Vorel wrote that the stars indicate an Eisenhower victory. Said Editor Vorel: "We feel the Libra-scales are going to tilt a little wee bit toward the Eisenhower side and that ... he's going to win by a nose." P:Onetime (1924) Democratic candidate for President John W. Davis, who declared for Willkie in 1940, joined up with Democrats for Eisenhower because "corruption . . . carelessness, complacency and favoritism in Government circles demand a change."

P:Virginia's former Governor William M. Tuck followed Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd in saying that he could not endorse the Democratic national ticket. P:Physicist Albert Einstein said Stevenson would get his vote because "I trust his integrity, judgment and intelligence." Syndicated Columnist Dorothy Thompson announced she would vote for Eisenhower "against Truman and Trumanism." P:Arkansas' third largest afternoon paper, the Pine Bluff Commercial, broke an 84-year-old precedent, came out for Eisenhower, explained to its readers that it wasn't "whole hog" Republican--only "just for Ike."

P:In Boston, the Post, traditionally Democratic, backed Eisenhower. P:The Bloomington (Ill.) Pantagraph--25% owned by Adlai Stevenson, and usually Republican--decided to sit this election out, because "we cannot possibly be objective."

P:Though it called Eisenhower "far from ideal," Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune reluctantly endorsed him as a means of "strengthening the antiSocialist, Republican vote in Congress." P:The Milwaukee Journal, which last backed a Democratic candidate for President in 1936, announced that it was for Stevenson.

P:Louisiana's Julius T. Long, brother of the late Democratic Senator Huey Long and former Governor Earl Long, came out for Eisenhower. Other Longs are working hard for Stevenson.

P:Columbia University, split politically, became even more so after 714 members of its "faculties and staff" took a full-page newspaper ad to support Eisenhower. Members of the university's 324-strong pro-Stevenson group, also consisting of faculty and staff members, angrily charged that many of the names in the ad were "non-matriculating students . . . grounds employees, purchasing agents or dieticians." P:Georgia's Senator Richard B. Russell, contender at Chicago for the Democratic presidential nomination, came out for Stevenson in a 750-word statement to Atlanta papers, although "I do not subscribe to every plank of the Democratic platform nor agree with all the views of our party's presidential candidate." P:Commenting that "I have nothing on earth to lose but a political job," South Carolina's Democratic Representative L. Mendel Rivers announced himself for Eisenhower. Said Rivers: "the Democratic Party of Jefferson. Calhoun and Hampton . . . has been captured and is controlled by elements with ideologies foreign to democracy."

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