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...handily won both the Democratic nomination and the general election. But infinitely more important to his long-term ambitions was the advice given him early in that senatorial campaign by Nashville Tennessean Publisher Silliman Evans Jr. and Campaign Manager Charles Neese. They told him that if he could shake at least 500 hands a day until election time he could beat the Crump machine. He did-and won-and it has since been a slugabed campaign day that has not seen him pump at least 500 hands...
...usual welcoming bouquet, which I, not being endowed with three hands, frantically considered gripping with my teeth. Estes, pumping away with both fists, looked over at me, a little annoyed. Above the hubbub of wind, propellers and introductions, he called out, 'Honey, why can't you shake hands with all these good people...
...placid and happy as ever-but inwardly he was beginning to boil. Campaigning with Adlai was all right, but the closely timed schedule sort of cramped Kefauver's style. He wanted to get out by himself and start beating the bushes, taking all the time he needed to shake every hand he could find. He means to do everything that energy and ambition can accomplish to win the election. The Vice President's chair is not quite what he set his sights on as a boy, but it will do-for a while. If the Democrats win, Kefauver...
Wide, Wide, Shake...
...time for balancing exercises on the bongo board he kept in his office (see cut). Last week Weaver knew that the time to boost himself had come. With a fat NBC severance check for his unexpired contract in his pocket. Weaver resigned, touching off one of the biggest NBC shake-ups in years. As a prologue to further resignations or shifts to come, Sarnoff named from NBC ranks four new executive vice presidents who will report directly...