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Your story on Candidate Bricker's speech (TIME, May 8) has a puzzling reference. You show Bricker saying: ". . . Personally, I have always felt that the United States should join the World Court...
Other candidates were not playing hide-&-seek. Ohio's John W. Bricker wound up a 3O-state, 20,000-mile campaign tour in which he had put himself on record more plainly than any other candidate. He talked off-the-record to Washington's 78 Club (freshman G.O.P. Congressmen). Friendly, forthright, he sent them off in a real glow of admiration...
...people, and it would signify that the elected leaders had taken seriously their responsibility to choose the best man. If Tom Dewey showed dominance on this ballot, as was generally expected, he could win on Ballot No. 2; but if he did not win easily then, John Bricker would have his chance-and dark horses could hope for theirs...
...seemed unlikely, but he went on gaining strength from all the Stop-Deweyites, and perhaps from the many citizens who have always been allergic to Tom Dewey and are now relishing the rising smear-Dewey campaign in the New Deal press. (Columnist Walter Winchell reported that odds on Bricker had dropped from 20-to-1 to 3-to-1.) His campaign, John Bricker said, would go on right up to convention time...
Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, about to address most of the 300-odd citizens of Brickerville, Pa., stopped short, peered into the crowd, shouted: "Henry, what are you doing here?" Beavered, 80-year-old Henry Bricker, who had come from Bradford, Ohio for the occasion, joined his second cousin on the platform...