Who's for Whom

P: Over cookies and coffee with the press in his summer mansion on Mackinac Island, Michigan's Governor G. Mennen Williams plighted his state's 51 delegate votes to Jack Kennedy for the Democratic nomination. In accepting Michigan's endorsement, Kennedy hoped out loud that a procession of other big-delegate states (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois) might be lining up. The Kennedy forces were out to track down every favorite son, boss and delegate, but were finding stiffened resistance despite the Michigan breakthrough.

P: The 19 editors of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain announced their unanimous blessing of Lyndon Johnson as "the ablest and strongest" candidate for the Democratic nomination, reserved decision on a Republican choice "until a later day when, and if, a contest develops." The ultraconservative Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader also gave Johnson a curt nod as its favorite Democrat. And Long Island's Newsday, one of the first U.S. dailies to come out for Adlai Stevenson in 1956, was early again in 1960--plumping for a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket.

P: Twelve hundred delegates of the Textile Workers' Union convention in Chicago ignored the ruling of the parent A.F.L.-C.I.O. forbidding any preconvention endorsement, roaringly acclaimed Kennedy as their choice. But the leaders of 78 A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions, polled by Chicago's Roosevelt University, favored Stevenson by a 2-1 margin over Kennedy and Symington.

P: In Arvada, Colo., pretty Shirley Jean Havens, 21, wife of a young plumber, registered as a Republican. Last November Shirley Jean wrote President Eisenhower and Harry Truman asking their advice on how to cast her first vote. Truman sent her a grumpy reply, advising her to read her history books, but Ike responded by aiming a national fund-raising address at the young woman and thrusting her into the national spotlight (TIME, Feb. 8). What finally made up her mind to be a Republican, she said, was unfair Democratic criticism of Ike over the U-2 incident: "It got me up in arms."

P: Tacoma, Wash. Lawyer Edgar Eisenhower, a sometime critic of his famous brother, left for a European vacation with an announcement: "I cannot see anyone now except Nixon."

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