National Affairs: Who's for Whom

California National Committeeman James Roosevelt, who proposed General Eisenhower for the Democratic nomination in 1948, again invited the wrath of the party machine, this time by plunking for Estes Kefauver. Said the late President's eldest son: "The opponents of Kefauver . . . are the big city bosses who have lost so much . . . by their close tie-ups with corruption. [He has] the support of the little man in the street."

Other new preferences:

¶ For Eisenhower, Mrs. Hiram Houghton of Red Oak, Iowa, retiring president of the 10.7 million-member General Federation of Women's Clubs, "because he stands for thrift, sagacity, individual enterprise and those things that we believe in most dearly as true Americans."

¶ For Eisenhower, Senator Edward J. Thye of Minnesota, a former Stassen supporter. Reason: "This is a two-man race for the nomination between Eisenhower and Taft, and [of the two] I'm for Eisenhower."

¶ For Taft, Harold ("Red") Grange, the "Galloping Ghost" of the Illinois backfield in the early '20s and now a Chicago insurance man, because "there are a lot of problems facing us . . . and I think the same way Taft does."