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...candidate himself called his pace "intensive." In his Denver hotel headquarters, Eisenhower was getting a tremendous load of work done. Each day he worked steadily from 8 a.m. to noon, then held open house for an hour for practically anyone who wanted to see him, then continued his briefing sessions with advisers on through the evening. The round of policy conferences was relentless. Among the week's visitors...
Three times a week, after dinner, they attended a lecture, spent weekends touring industrial plants and ranches. They also had to find time for a heavy load of reading: Karl Marx, Paul Hoffman's Peace Can Be Won, Norman Thomas' A Socialist's Faith, and the Wall Street Journal...
...publicity for his thesis. But he had found nobody but Eileen. He recalled that she had murmured, "It hurts," after he fired two bullets, and that, lying on the floor, she had cried, before dying: "Oh, he's unloading the damned thing, and he's going to load it all over again...
...story building at 540 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, King and his two assistants, Frank S. Waterman and Charles A. Adams Jr., supervise the handling of about as much mail in a day as the average person receives in a lifetime. The daily average is 32,000 letters. Peak load during the past year: 84,694 pieces of mail, last...
Controlling the hoopla, like organists on the keyboard, throwing in an extra furioso here and an obbligato there, were the boys at headquarters. On the Hilton's eleventh floor, the Eisenhower GHQ was somewhat disorganized but fervent."Demonstration materials" went out by the truckload. As one load of 600 Eisenhower hats was sent to the front, Volunteer Worker George McMullen said: "Don't worry, we'll have the bodies to go under those hats. Bodies are our job. We know just where to call when we need, let's say 150 bodies for a demonstration...