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...content would be remembered after its slurred syllables were forgotten. The next crowd Wendell Willkie addressed was not the exacting, sweating multitude which he had numbed and thrilled at Elwood. Before him last week, in the Memorial Park near his wife's home at Rushville, were 10,000 townsmen and countryfolk who simply wanted a look at a candidate whom many of them already knew. He could talk to them without forethought, manuscript, microphones; and he talked at his easy best...
That was not all George Stevens had "never submitted to public gaze." For more than 30 years he had hidden behind his beard a secret which his fellow townsmen never suspected, learned only after he was dead. Dying, he had spoken of a brother, Grant, in Akron, Ohio. Grant Stevens was notified, and the body was taken to Akron for burial. Hartford City friends, who attended the funeral and met Stevens' brother, his aunt, several nieces and nephews, made the discovery that George Stevens was a Negro...
...cities Milwaukee in the early 19005 was one of the most corrupt. In 1916, its disgusted German-immigrant voters quit old-line parties and elected as mayor a tall, lanky, unkempt Irishman-a Socialist. So thorough a job of housecleaning did Daniel Webster Hoan do in Milwaukee that his townsmen re-elected him six times without a break. Under May or Hoan's 24-year administration, Milwaukee became one of the best-run cities in the U. S. Chief carping came from bankers, utility men, real-estate owners protesting that "Uncle Dan," bearing the Socialist label...
...unhappy marriage, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, his election. As in the play, Actor Raymond Massey turns the trick for him. But there are also shrewd playwrighting touches: reluctant Mr. Lincoln symbolically taken in charge by the soldiers as soon as he wins his election ; Lincoln listening to his fellow townsmen sing John Brown's Body as the Presidential train heads him toward Washington, war, assassination...
...hour before Mr. Browder was due at Strathcona Hall (capacity: 407) one afternoon last week, police had to close the doors, with nearly 500 inside, sitting, standing and hanging from the windows. By the time Mr. Browder was squeezed in through a side door, 2,500 more undergraduates and townsmen were milling outside, raising ladders to the windows, trying to jimmy the doors. Delighted Comrade Browder, mistaking a lark for an eagle, began by hailing the Bill of Rights (laughter and applause), then launched into a discourse on "America and the Imperialistic...