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Then the delegates climbed into their buses and drove to the convention hall. The roll call began. One by one, the voices spoke for the states of the Union: flat Midwestern twangs and Southern singsongs, quiet voices and hoarsely tense voices, defiant voices and triumphant voices, and voices that tried to cram a message into the simple business of voting. ("I vote for Eisenhower, the winner." "I proudly vote for Bob Taft." "Louisiana casts 13 hard-earned votes for Eisenhower...
...group has grown from a membership of 40 to morethan 110. Originally, the Committee intended to concentrate on the South and the Far West, where selling and recruiting work is needed most. But the program has expanded in scope, so that members now represent 38 states--most of them midwestern and the group also does extensive work along the Atlantic seaboard...
...return of beer, but little of a lasting nature in the way of educational innovation. In 1934-35 the first faint sproutings of the National Scholarship plan went into effect with the arrival of a special group of scholars from what the CRIMSON referred to as "the midwestern regions." Until the plan was codified in 1936, these men were known as "Conant Scholars...
...Suppose It Matters." Ike Eisenhower must win more delegates to win the nomination, and Ike knows it. On the way from Kansas City to Abilene, Ike doggedly went through the train to shake hands with his boosters and some 50 Midwestern delegates who were aboard. For the most part, these were already technically his delegates, but the openhanded, hearty, Eisenhower charm turned many into glowing enthusiasts. When...
...University, the self-appointed athletic coach of Columbus' asylum for the blind. Mainly the Album is a lesson in human affection, shrewd but not hard, done with a wonderful eye for idiosyncrasies carried with dignity, human follies borne with grace. That Author Thurber loves these people, their unmistakable Midwestern American grain, is clear on every page. Plain folk have never been more gracefully praised...