Stirrings in New York

New York's Governor Tom Dewey was never a man to encourage possible G.O.P. rivals in his own backyard. But when, in 1950, Dewey hand-picked scholarly Lawyer Frank Charles Moore, 57, for lieutenant governor, the pundits thought Dewey might be grooming a successor. Last week Lieutenant Governor Moore abruptly announced that he would resign in September to become president of Government Research Foundation, Inc., a new Rockefeller enterprise to study ways of improving government.

It seemed likely that Moore, more a political scientist than a politician, was resigned to the fact that he was not going to get a chance to be governor. What Dewey would do was the subject of warm speculation. In 1951, Dewey said that he had "no expectation of ever running for public office again." Last week, all he would say was that he has "no political plans." Possibly, Tom Dewey, who is still young enough (51) to be a presidential prospect in 1956 or even 1960, has made up his mind to run for governor again in 1954 to keep in the running for the presidential nomination in 1956.

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