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"Come in," smiled Adlai Stevenson to newsmen on the morning after, "and have some fried post-mortems on toast." The newsmen, who had followed Stevenson enthusiastically for weeks, exchanged a few fried postmortems, said goodbye and flew off with their portable typewriters, many of them to cover the birth of...
Not the least interesting of the fried post-mortems of 1952 is the reminder of an old and growing defect of the U.S. political system. Where party discipline is almost nonexistent, the leadership of the opposition cannot be institutionalized. Governor Stevenson, a man without an organized personal faction, shortly (Jan...
He had been a sheep drover, navvy, gold prospector, ship's cook, waiter, locksmith, umbrella mender, a seller of fried fish, and a spear-carrier in a touring production of Shakespeare's Henry V when, some time in the 1880s he decided to "emerge from the murk and...
As the sun rose over the spruce-covered Newfoundland hills one morning last week, the tiny (34-ton) whaler Arctic Skipper put out from the weathered jetty at Dildo and chuffed at a steady six knots down Trinity Bay. Deck hands were just finishing their breakfast of fried eggs, sausage...
Texas & Tidelands. At Fort Worth, his audience was one of the most enthusiastic he has ever addressed. At San Antonio, Spanish-Americans greeted him with signs reading "Viva 'Adlai" and "Ole Adlai." And in Uvalde, he got a public blessing and breakfast (bacon & eggs, fried ham and red-eye...