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...sense that was politically recognizable. In fact, the delegates told each other, he was politically impossible, an amateur whose rankness you could smell. Nevertheless, they went to see him, and get a nearer sniff. His small 16th floor suite at a corridor's end in the Benjamin Franklin hotel became a crazy-house, a stifling welter of political amateurs and well-wishers (bond salesmen, debutantes, business bigwigs), gawkers (clubwomen, tourists, thrill-collectors), and disgusted professionals, indignant at their offhand treatment by people who had never heard of them and who even now regarded politicos as casual, unimportant, irrelevant vermin...
Actually there were more Willkie offices in town than even he could get under his size 7¾ hat. Volunteer workers had opened several. And in the plush and marble Benjamin Franklin Hotel, where Candidate Taft had his elegant headquarters in the ballroom and on two additional floors. Willkie headquarters had been established in a small suite of rooms on the 16th floor. There he arrayed himself, big and burly in a blue suit, charging from one room to another, standing hour after hour answering newsmen, posing for photographers, meeting spectators, delegates, anybody. Even when he dashed...
When Mr. Willkie was nominated, newsmen dashed to the vicinity of the Willkie apartment at 1010 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, to find out what the neighbors thought, and what the neighbors looked like. Burbled Mrs. Benjamin Friedland: "He is a perfectly marvelous man." Said Tommy Rolla, who delivers groceries to the Willkie door: "Never met him. Mrs. Willkie? Okay...
...Candidate Frank Gannett saved the day by importing three live elephants, marched them incessantly through the streets. Senator Robert A. Taft also had elephants (of papier-mache): one in the quiet dignity of his ballroom headquarters at the Benjamin Franklin Hotel, two perched on the marquee outside. Candidate Taft also had 100 rooms for his staff and the support of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, who said, in her best Alice-blue style, "The Willkie campaign comes right from the grass roots of every country club in America...
...undergraduate members of the committee who are working on the drive are G. Parkman Denny, Jr. '41, Benjamin O. Gardiner '43, Thomas Gardiner '42, Morris Gray '43, Joseph R. Hamlen, Jr. '43, Julian H. Richardson '43, H. Richardson Shepley, Jr. '42, and Henry G. Simonds...