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Gamut. In Montana, Mary Flynn began her teaching career in a town named Paradise, ended it in one called Hell Gate...
...Wendell Willkie from the Republican Convention and shocked at the treatment accorded Henry Wallace by the Democrats [TIME, July 31]. Senator Truman may become Presidential material but the electorate, remembering the disaster that followed the election of another senator similarly selected, may refuse to vote for a Hannegan-Flynn-Kelly man for the peace period. MABEL WITHYCOMBE Portland...
...Better than anyone else, he knew that a majority of the 1,176 delegates were both: 1) anti-Wallace, and 2) at sea, waiting for a signal from the lighthouse. Hannegan then let it be known that he had telephoned the President, and that the President wanted Truman. Ed Flynn passed along the same news to New York's 96 delegates. So did Ed Kelly...
...bosses were very busy. Their work was done in the air-conditioned "Private Room H," reached by a dark corridor underneath the speaker's stand. In & out, all afternoon, went Hannegan, Kelly, Flynn, Walker, Hague & Co. Harry Truman stayed there for three hours, handshaking the delegates as the bosses brought them in. Inside, someone was always on the telephone, and whispered snatches of conversation floated to the door: "I think we got California in shape . . ." "Kelly said . . ." "At the New York caucus, they . . ." "Don't worry too much about Alabama. . . ." One of the most impressive lines, used with...
Ballot II. Ballot II was a thrilling battle until the break came. At the quarter-mark, Wallace led, 148 votes to Truman's 125, with seven key states "passing" (waiting to see which way to jump). Then Ed Flynn brought in 74½ New York votes, and Truman went ahead for the first time. The score: Truman 246; Wallace 187. Then Favorite Son Bob Kerr, Governor of Oklahoma, withdrew his name: 22 more votes for Truman...