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...from Kentucky. When someone would shout: "Where's the wife?" the Veep would explain that Mrs. Barkley hadn't come along this trip, but he hoped to bring her soon "and I know you will fall in love with her the way I did-but I hope the result won't be the same." Every time he was offered the customary glass of water at a speaker's rostrum, he would spurn it, remarking: "I don't drink water, I'm a Kentuckian." He even had a line for school youngsters he encountered...
...Veep's voice sometimes seemed to falter when it came to calling off the names of local candidates. He usually had a list in his hand, and read from it. In California, where Jimmy Roosevelt is running uphill against popular Republican Governor Earl Warren, Barkley acknowledged his "great respect" for Warren and said that he did not intend to attack him. The best he could do for Jimmy was to call attention to his background "and the fact that he was overwhelmingly nominated as the candidate of his party...
Cornered by a direct question, Kentucky's Alben Berkley made an admission: yes, it is true that he mixes ginger ale with his bourbon. "The ginger ale may not do much for the bourbon," the Veep explained, "but the bourbon certainly does something for the ginger...
Meanwhile Mrs. Barkley dropped in at the Metropolitan Opera in a bare-shouldered black evening dress that prompted the Daily News to headline: MRS. VP'S STRAPLESS GOWN KO'S TOWN. Visiting backstage after the Veep rejoined her, she obligingly posed for cameramen and confided to Tristan und Isolde Stars Helen Traubel and Lauritz Melchior: "What the boys want is some Hollywood cheesecake from...
...next night the Veep spoke to some 2,500 bigwig Democrats at a fund-raising dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria. (Estimated net take for the Democratic National Committee: $300,000.) On the enchanted evening when the honeymooners got around to seeing South Pacific, they literally stopped the show. Entering the theater a few minutes late, they got a rousing ovation from both cast and audience. The next day they were off to a home-cooked dinner in their Washington apartment...