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POLITICAL NOTES: Who's for Whom, Oct. 13, 1952

Star-spangled celebrities of stage & screen this week plumped for Adlai Stevenson. Among them: Humphrey Bogart, George Jessel, Bette Davis, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters.

¶ Columbia University, of which Eisenhower is president, divided: for Stevenson, 95 faculty members organized under Historian Allan Nevins, and the student paper the Spectator; for Eisenhower, the 15,000-strong Columbia Alumni for Eisenhower committee.

¶ Also for Stevenson: Harvard's Crimson, Yale's Daily News, Barnard's Bulletin, The Dartmouth. The Daily Princetonian, of which Stevenson was managing editor in his undergraduate days, endorsed Dwight Eisenhower.

¶ Morris F. Richardson, former Republican mayor of Whittier, Calif. (Senator Nixon's home town) enlisted...

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