Word: adlai
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...presume that your choice will be Dwight D. Eisenhower . . . Nevertheless . . . I nominate Governor Adlai Stevenson...
...Adlai Stevenson was invited to become honorary president of the National Association of Gagwriters. His reply: "It is with the utmost disappointment that I feel obliged to decline your engaging and flattering invitation . . . That I could even have been considered for this distinction lifts my weary heart...
...Adlai Stevenson, the most charming personality of his generation...
Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats, Ike nor Adlai, have to worry about the first two categories. But you and I and everybody have a lot to worry about if the third group gets power...
Politics & War. Election year brought the usual flutter of campaign quickies. John Gunther's superficial Eisenhower might well have been called Outside Ike; the books on Adlai Stevenson were competent profiles at best. None of them did startlingly well. A curious, garishly illustrated hodgepodge of miscellaneous Trumaniana called Mr. President-its publication had been encouraged by Harry as a kind of farewell gesture-passed the 100,000 mark...