24 AUGUST 1956, Page 7

WHEN Mr. Adlai Stevenson became the Democratic candidate for President

in 1952, his former wife announced that she would vote Republican. This time Mrs. Stevenson, who before she married was Miss Ellen Borden, is not confining herself to such half-measures. According to Time magazine, 'Arts patroness Stevenson plans to bring out a splenetic polemic' against her former husband, and she hopes to make 'quite a bit of money on it' for her arts salon. Whatever Lizzie did or did not do, she did not do it for money.

Ellen Borden in a stew, Knocked her spouse in '52, Now she's up to baser tricks To do him down in '56.