First Aid

New Jersey's right-wing Republicans have been trying to commit fratricide against Clifford Case, the G.O.P. senatorial candidate, ever since Case denounced Joe McCarthy (TIME, July 19). Soon after that, 10,000 circulars titled "The Case Against Case" went out across the state. The circulars attacked the ex-Congressman as the candidate of the C.I.O. and the A.D.A. and an enemy of the late Bob Taft. The tide got so strong that last week Chief Republican Dwight Eisenhower came to Case's aid.

To a White House luncheon Ike called Case, Vice President Richard Nixon, National Chairman Leonard Hall, top New Jersey politicians and, most important, Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen, an oldfashioned, free-style orator and chairman of the G.O.P. senatorial campaign committee. After lunch, McCarthy-Backer Dirksen, who is beginning to be known around Washington as "the Wizard of Ooze," said he would campaign for Case this fall. Two days later, at his weekly press conference, the President gave Case solid endorsement.

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