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When the head of the Continental Army made those self-deprecating statements at the time of his selection last year, he was acknowledging that Congress's choice had not been inevitable-and perhaps not even right. Among the others who had been considered: Artemas Ward, then 47, ailing commander of the Massachusetts troops, and Charles Lee, 44, who now serves Washington as first major general. But the Massachusetts delegates themselves realized that they could best win continent-wide support by letting a southerner take the lead. So it was John Adams who did most to see that the towering...
Another specimen of European faddism has recently caught on: a Persian rain and sun shield called the umbrella. Although many still regard it as a frivolous affectation, some physicians recommend it as an aid to ward off vertigoes, epilepsies, sore eyes and fevers, and several stores in Boston have started advertising umbrellas at prices ranging from 36 to 42 shillings...
...nomination moves toward what looks like a close and brawling finish, Reagan's superior organization shows, especially in the remaining Western convention states that still are electing delegates. For months Reagan's men burrowed into the bedrock, taking control of the local parties at the ward and precinct levels. While Ford built his state organization from the top down, Reagan built from the bottom...
...water's 1964 campaign and some who were new to politics. One such recruit: Ernie Leger, 46, an Albuquerque real estate salesman, gave up his job for four months to work as a full-time volunteer (15 hours a day). He worked telephone banks turning people out for ward conventions, the first step in the delegate selection process. Says state chairman Jack Stahl, who is staying neutral: "I see a clean sweep of all 21 delegates for Reagan...
Died. James Aloysius Farley, 88, Franklin D. Roosevelt's astute political strategist and fixer; in Manhattan. Farley was a consummate politician of the old ward-heeling school, a big bluff, outgoing operator who belonged to every fraternal organization from the Elks to the Eagles, knew every local Democratic chieftain from his native New York to California, and could win a new ally or stroke an old one with a warm note signed "Jim" in his trademark Irish green ink. He left a prospering building-materials business for politics, "the noblest of careers," becoming New York State Democratic Secretary...