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...Alben W. Barkley is 73 years old. In five days last week, Barkley, stumping for the Democratic ticket in a Kentucky state election, made speeches at Ashland, Pikesville, Cynthiana, Covington, Glasgow, Scottsville, Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, Henderson, Madisonville, Princeton and Hopkinsville. Home in Paducah a day before the election, the Veep made a dozen more speeches in neighboring towns. After the campaign was over, this week he was slated to speak at Cincinnati and Columbus before whipping out to the West Coast for seven speeches in seven days...
...Veep came out looking old and tired and sat down to the most strained press conference in his political history. Two stenographers kept careful record as he explained that Flo Bratten was "an accommodating, good-natured, bighearted woman." Would she keep her job? Said Barkley, woodenly: "I am not going to make a hasty judgment ... I am reserving judgment...
...breakfast one day last week, the New York Herald Tribune's Jack Steele was confronted by his six-year-old son waving a Washington Post. "Daddy," he asked, "what's this woman doing with a gun?" The woman on the front page was Flo Bratten, secretary to Veep Alben Barkley, dressed in her outfit as an honorary Kentucky deputy sheriff, and the gun she held was pointed straight at the reader. Steele grinned; Flo Bratten had reason to draw a bead on him. He had just broken the story of how Mrs. Bratten and Charles Shaver, counsel...
...Argentine Who's Who, in a biography dictated by Evita herself, states that she is 29-a year less than the age set by the constitution for candidates for the nation's two top offices. Chirped the New York Daily News: "Eva would rather be 29 than Veep...
...President Alben W. Barkley was also arriving, hotel protocol experts went into a huddle, reached a solution that seemed to satisfy everyone. MacArthur's red five-star flag, usually flown at the front entrance, was moved around to another door in honor of all three generals. The white Veep flag (13 stars and the American eagle) was hoisted over the main door. But later the experts learned that their solution was not quite right after all. As Secretary of Defense, General Marshall rated his own blue standard (four stars and an eagle...