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...Wrote Columnist Barry Gray in the pro-Stevenson New York Post: "[We] put our hands under our chins and press upward to bring our countenance back into a semblance of normalcy." The dominant feeling among Democrats was surprise. The abundant talk in the last few weeks before E-day about a switch to Stevenson had not prepared them for what was, in fact, an overwhelming switch to Eisenhower. A New York grocer named Vincent Goluch took it hardest, turning in five false fire alarms the morning after election (as he turned in the sixth, police arrested him). In San Antonio...
...Republicans faced employment problems of their own. Wrote Columnist Bill Cunningham in the Boston Herald: "I don't know where I get off feeling sorry for Governor Stevenson and the Democrats . . . I'm practically out of work. For at least a dozen years I've been hammering the theme that 'we need a change' . . . O.K. We've got the change. But what...
...Hollywood she seldom strayed more than half a block from her mother's raised eyebrows, and was usually home by 11 o'clock. Hedda Hopper says: "My dear, I didn't see her once all the time she was here!" Columnist Sidney Skolsky reports: "She looked like she was going to take off any moment. You know, walking around in a kind of wonderment." Jerry Epstein, Chaplin's assistant, remembers her as the only actress he ever knew who "could name the character and the play if you read her a quote from Shakespeare...
...European press, to whose faithful readers the vote was a tremendous surprise. "Europe's reaction," wrote New York Times Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick, "was colored by reports [which] created the impression that . . . Stevenson was not only a probable winner but the best if not the only hope of saving American foreign policy from 'neo-isolationism.' This line of comment, echoed in France, Italy and other allied countries, is the end result of slanted reports and unwarranted assumptions...
...many ways the best poll was one that did not approach the man in the street: Columnist David Lawrence polled the editors of daily newspapers in every state. Their verdict:, Eisenhower to win with 357 electoral votes...