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...hours, days and weeks it has taken men to cross it. In Columbus' day, the other side of the ocean seemed as far away as the other side of the moon. His caravels crawling painfully across the Atlantic for 71 days brought it very little closer. The gap (67 days) put between themselves and their homeland gave the Mayflower pilgrims a sense of freedom they could never find on King James's side of the water...
...President. He was put on the ticket to bridge the North-South split. The leaders who picked him hope that Northern liberals will accept him despite his stand against civil rights legislation, and that uncompromising Southern conservatives will not consider him a traitor. He has been straddling the gap inside the Democratic Party of the South for so long that he was a natural prospect for the wider straddle required by the national situation of the Democratic Party. Sparkman, in fact, is so resolute a compromiser that it takes a political micrometer to tell just where he stands...
...mansion on Harrisburg's Front Street, personal tragedy shook his life. His wife, whom he had married in 1939 (she was 19 years his junior), died of brain cancer. Fine moved out of the mansion, and went to live at the governor's summer residence at Indiantown Gap. Mrs. Fine's brother and his wife came to keep house for the governor and help him look after his two sons, Jack, now 11, and Donald, 9. Fine is deeply devoted to the boys, and they to him. One of the reasons for Fine's affection...
...Despite the number of newsmen, there were gaps in the homecoming coverage, largely because many of the Washington newsmen are more accustomed to punditing than to sharp-eyed reporting. Publisher William R. Hearst Jr. spotted the biggest gap, wrote in his own Sunday column: "There was one phase of Ike's homecoming that, to my mind, was terribly under-reported . . . That was his first public appearance in Abilene . . . dedicating the Eisenhower Memorial Foundation . . . This speech hit me so hard that I tried all afternoon to get a transcript of it ... Some of America's best-known newspapermen didn...
...unpublicized but vital gap in the Athletic Association hierarchy closed Tuesday with the announcement that Donald M. Felt '49 had been appointed Assistant Director of Athletics...