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TIME Correspondents Bill Glasgow and Ed Darby have been traveling with the two presidential candidates since long before the election campaign started. Glasgow, in Adai Stevenson's press entourage, thinks that he will remember the 1952 campaign, some 20 or 30 years hence, as "a montage of whirling airplane propellers, hotel lobbies in the dreary half-light of 5:30 a.m., piles of baggage, and angry profiles of bus drivers, cabbies and other chauffeurs harassed by the perpetual pleading to 'hurry...
...Glasgow, a veteran reporter of Illinois politics, worked for the New York Herald Tribune in Chicago before joining TIME'S bureau there. He did the major part of the reporting for the Stevenson cover story that ran last January, just when Stevenson made his famous visit to President Truman at Blair House. When it became evident that the Illinois governor was a strong contender for the nomination, Glasgow was assigned to stay with Stevenson. For this week's cover story, he was again called on to supply facts from his storehouse of knowledge about the Democratic candidate...
...addition to their actual coverage of the campaign, Glasgow and Darby are continually queried by TIME'S editors for the answers to specific questions. On the road, says Glasgow, the correspondent's workday lasts 18 to 20 hours -"no longer than Stevenson's day." But the logistics of the campaign trip prove most wearying...
...that Buchanan cost too much to live in. He had already sold the mountain-famed Ben Lomond-that stood in the castle's backyard. He built himself and his Duchess a cosy, eleven-room house on the castle grounds, leased 60,000 acres of shooting land to a Glasgow businessmen's association, and turned the castle itself into a hotel...
Yankee Buccaneer (Universal-International) is vaguely based on the life & times of U.S. Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, whose classic "Damn the torpedoes!" was uttered when he sailed through the Confederate mine fields during the battle of Mobile Bay in 1864. The picture is a Technicolored version of some of Farragut's pre-Civil War activities when he sailed in 1823 on a U.S. mosquito fleet assigned to scuttle West Indies pirate ships...