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From the green-curtained voting booth came a clank of gears as the main control lever jerked irritably back & forth. Then a voice, familiar to all of the U.S. and to most of the world, spoke distinctly from behind the curtains: "The goddamned thing won't work...
...Roosevelt slept late, set out at noon in the warm sunshine for the oak-beamed town hall at Hyde Park. There, at the polls, where he gave his occupation to Inspector Mildred M. Todd as "tree-grower," he enthusiastically accepted a piece of candy from Miss Todd, entered the booth munching...
...guns, big & little, were now zeroed on the plain U.S. citizen, the man who "doesn't know" in the polls, or is "leaning." There he stood, without benefit of foxhole, raked in a withering crossfire that would last on into November, until the blessed peace of the polling booth descended...
...engineering a Term IV musical show in Madison Square Garden, had to choose from a wealth of volunteers: Lily Pons, Duke Ellington, Yehudi Menuhin, Marian Anderson. Dinah Shore, Grace Moore, Gene Krupa. Anti-New Deal writers Ru pert Hughes, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Kenneth Roberts, Louis Bromfield, Channing Pollock and Booth Tarkington plotted a Republican victory, and Dorothy Parker, in a big new pirate's hat, furiously attended Term IV luncheons...
...just in time to catch the Monday morning papers. Said he: "My opponent indicated that he has no program and has sunk to mere quoting from Mein Kampf. . . . I shall examine his record with unvarnished candor." At Belen, N. Mex., Tom Dewey got off, walked into a glass phone booth in the station, put in a long distance call to National Chairman Herbert Brownell. While Indian children and cowboys ogled him through the glass, Tom Dewey ordered a second radio network (170 more stations on the Blue) for his speech in answer...