Who's for Whom

Writing in American Astrology (which has called Adlai Stevenson the "Man of Destiny"), Astrologist Rupert Gleadow last week revealed how the stars stand. It is easy as pie to tell who will win, said Gleadow, but tough to write about it, because he doesn't want to discourage anybody. His news: at the time of the election, "General Eisenhower suffers the transit of Neptune and Saturn over his Sun," and that is really bad. His conclusion: Stevenson, like a shooting star. P:Adlai Stevenson, a pharmacist in Greenville, Texas, joined the national Stevensons-for-Eisenhower Club. Texas Adlai, no kin, though he was named for the Democratic candidate's grandfather (Vice President under Grover Cleveland), said he thinks there is "too much flip-flop stuff going on up in Washington." P:Four big names in he world of arts and letters announced in New York that they were switching from Eisenhower to Stevenson. The four: Producer-Playwright George Abbott, Author Edna Ferber, Librettist-Producer Oscar Hammerstein II, Producer Irene Selznick. Two big Southern newspapers announced their choice. The Atlanta Journal, the South's largest daily (which has never supported a Republican for President), came out for Stevenson. The Charlotte News, largest evening paper in the Carolinas (which supported Tom Dewey in 1948), announced for Ike. In Baltimore, the Afro-American, the nation's largest Negro weekly (which supported the Republican nominee in 1940, '44 and '48), endorsed Stevenson.* P:Lewis W. Douglas, who served as U.S. budget director under Franklin Roosevelt and as Ambassador to Great Britain under Harry Truman, introduced Eisenhower for a plane-side speech at Tucson, Ariz. Douglas said he still considers himself a Democrat, "but I am convinced the time has come, in the public interest and for the welfare of the world, for a change in the Government that has managed and mismanaged affairs for nearly a quarter of a century." P:In Maryland, where the race is so close that politicians are watching every development with anxious eyes, an important Democrat made an announcement: Howard W. Jackson, who was mayor of Baltimore for 16 years (1923-27; 1931-43), supported Tom Dewey in 1944 and Harry Truman in 1948, came out for Eisenhower. P:At Uvalde, Tex., old (83) John Nance Garner took his first public political stand since he retired as Vice President in 1941. He scrawled a note to House Speaker Sam Rayburn, leader of the Texas "loyalists" : "I will vote the Democratic ticket straight ..."

P:John Roosevelt, youngest (36) son of F.D.R., hit the campaign trail for Eisenhower. His brother Elliott is also for Ike, but Brothers James and Franklin Jr. and their mother are for Stevenson. Said John: "I believe it's time for a cleanup, for new faces and new brains." P:After a speech by Boss John L. Lewis (who has not publicly supported a presidential candidate since he broke with Franklin Roosevelt in 1940 and supported Willkie), the United Mine Workers' convention in Cincinnati whooped through a resolution endorsing Adlai Stevenson. The Mine Workers' $1.90-a-day wage increase, won in negotiations with mine operators last month, is pending before the Wage Stabilization Board in Washington.

*The Afro-American was angry because Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate Richard Nixon signed a restrictive covenant, preventing resale to a Negro, when he bought his house in Washington. The paper did not seem disturbed by the fact that Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate John Sparkman, one of Nixon's neighbors, signed the same covenant. Both candidates live in a section where such covenants are automatically attached to house deeds.

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