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Show I . I" Willkio Gains i Stature as -'Dark Horse T RICHARD WALDO aae) AIRIEL VOeilOTTi 4 NEW YORK In reporting on New York Ideas concerning presidential presi-dential prospects, it is a mistake to emit periodic check-ups on the ! candidacy of Wendell Wlllkle, the No. 1 dark horse on the Republican list - The real power tn the drive to get . the Indiana Financial White House has not been headline 1L ! material because , Whirligig )t has no organ-izatioa. organ-izatioa. Wlllkle refuses to give expert organizers the green light. Should a Willkie wave sweep the convention it will be through the spontaneous agreement agree-ment of all these disorganized ele- ' menta. Here are Just a lew significant sig-nificant samples: At least one newspaper chain stands ready to Junk Dewey, Van-denberg, Van-denberg, Taft et al.,and boom Winkle's Win-kle's political views to the country. At least two magazines of national circulation (some say 6) are con- vinced he la the golden mean be-tween be-tween the rigid Republicanism of the 20s and the experimental liberalism liber-alism of the '30s. Contrary to general gen-eral impression Wall Street would - back him to a man if Dewey weren't In the picture. As It is there Is a sizable section In the Tory citadel that thinks young Torn politically more "safe" than the celebrated cast-iron independence independ-ence of Willkie. Since November, the haA-work-lng attorney has never received lest than 20, tn some cases 50, requests re-quests a day that he speak before clubs In each of the 48 atates. Five major universities petitioned him tor a commencement address in one afternoon. A delegation of key Republicans has been pleading for permission to gather up these strings and bind the cable that will pull him Into Pennsylvania avenue. Willkie la wide open to the nomination nomina-tion but won't take the political side show that customarily precedes pre-cedes lt |