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Attention now turned to a man who seemed to some Republicans to be heaven-sent as a compromise candidate: onetime Congressman John B. Hollister. Personable, pipe-smoking John Hollister is from Cincinnati, and it is the Midwest's turn for the chairmanship. He is the law partner of Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. At the 1940 convention, he captained the Taft-for-President forces, fought Willkie tooth-&-nail. But afterward he became a director of the Associated Willkie Clubs of America, boarded the campaign train as an aide, was with Willkie constantly from early September until election...
...time, he asked no quarter, always gave his backers a run for their money. One summer, at Detroit, he won three races within eight days. One winter at Tropical Park he ran off with the Christmas, New Year's and Orange Bowl Handicaps on successive Saturdays. Cincinnati fans will never forget the day he outran Seabiscuit in a race at River Downs. But the biggest kick he ever gave his admirers was his performance in the Rhode Island Handicap at Narragansett Park four years ago. Setting the pace for famed War Admiral, Kentucky Derby winner the previous year...
...seven: NBC, CBS, General Electric, Westinghouse, Crosley of Cincinnati, World Wide Broadcasting of Boston, Associated Broadcasters of San Francisco...
...traveled thousands of miles by coach, bumped over "corduroy" roads, put up at strange cabins and hostels. She talked and listened to statesmen, slaves, Abolitionists, jailbirds, men, women & children, in the East, West and South. From New Orleans she sailed up the Mississippi on the Henry Clay to Cincinnati. She was fascinated by the "sudden and overwhelming . . . perils of this extraordinary river" where "snags," "planters," and "sawyers" might "at any moment pierce the hull." Along the huge river she saw hundreds of miles of cotton and sugar fields. "[What] vast materials of human happiness," she wrote, "are placed...
...city' we had to cross ditches and stiles. ... I was taken by surprise at finding myself beneath the splendid [Capitol], so sordid are the enclosures and houses. . . ." Washington, she decided, "is a grand mistake." She believed the capital was likely to be shifted any day to more central Cincinnati...