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...straight, quiet streets which run north & south in Topeka, Kans. are named for U. S. Presidents. In the ornate, yellow-brick house at No. 801 Buchanan St., with a dried-up goldfish pool in the front yard, Alf M. Landon crawled out of bed at 7 o'clock one morning last week. Swiftly the Governor of Kansas pulled on an old blue suit, soft white shirt, red and blue tie, black shoes. At 7:20 he was down for a breakfast of orange juice, fruit, scrambled eggs and kidneys, toast and coffee with his two small children-John Cobb...
...Governor Landon climbed into the new Packard 120 coupe which he lately bought to replace an old Ford, had his Negro chauffeur drive him home for lunch. At 48 Alf Landon has begun to joke with friends about his growing paunch, but he blames that on his lack of time for as much exercise as he used to get. He always eats light at midday, gives the stream of political writers and politically-minded citizens who have lately been pouring in on him a standard two-course luncheon. When a political correspondent arrived in midafternoon, Nancy Jo and Jack Landon...
...distance telephone calls, no radio news flashes had come in when he went to bed at 11:15. In California they had only begun to count the primary votes cast that day which might, more than a month in advance of the Cleveland Convention, make it virtually certain that Alf M. Landon would be the next Republican nominee for President...
...first serious suggestion in print of Landon-for-President was in an election follow-up story in the Kansas City Journal-Post on Nov. 7, 1934, day after Alf Landon had become the only Republican Governor in the land to be re-elected in that year's Roosevelt landslide. Throughout the winter and spring of 1935 the Landon (Continued on p. 18) candidacy was kept publicly alive only by professional chitchat and an occasional Sunday feature in the newspapers. Meantime a group of Landon neighbors had begun to take the subject seriously in hand...
...father took the family out of Kansas to prospect for oil wells, and one of his wells "came in." So in 1904, when son Alfenrolled at the University of Kansas, he didn't have to work his way through college, as had college men Knox, Hoover and Borah. Alf joined Phi Gamma Delta, the "rich boys fraternity" of his day at Kansas, and proceeded to make a reputation for himself of being stingy. He had the first tuxedo in town, yet be campaigned successfully to cut the ice cream course from the house menu. He fought hard to have only...