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Kansas Republicans achieved the historic feat of sending the first woman to a full term in the Senate without any help from a husband's previous political career.* To be sure, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, 46, did not hide the fact that she was 1936 Presidential Candidate Alf Landon's daughter, no handicap in Kansas despite Landon's humiliating loss to F.D.R. But she proved a candid and outgoing campaigner, and her fresh personality meshed neatly with the voters' yearnings for change. Her opponent, Democrat Bill Roy, a physician and lawyer, had run unsuccessfully for the Senate before and had been...
Nancy Landon Kassebaum, 46, was four years old when her father Alf was crushed by F.D.R. in the 1936 presidential election. Yet even after Nancy became old enough to understand what had happened, her love of politics remained undimmed. Last year, after helping to raise four children and being legally separated from her husband, a Wichita lawyer, she made her first bid for major political office, starting near the top by running for the U.S. Senate. The petite (5 ft. 2 in.) Kassebaum campaigned at first in a softspoken, gentle manner but quickly picked up the tempo against former Democratic...
...fresh voice," proclaimed her TV ads, "and a trusted name." Her father, a spry 90, did not participate much in the campaign, but he joined Nancy in one TV ad. Said Nancy: "Don't you think the President has shown a lack of leadership?" Replied Alf: "When the trumpet sounds uncertain, how can you go into battle?" Remarked Nancy with cheerful candor: "It has been said that I am riding on the coattails of my dad. I can't think of any better coattails to ride on." She will doubtless continue to use them when she faces...
Whitby crossed the two tracks that separated them. When he reached the side Buster grabbed him, dragged him to the edge of the embankment, and flung him down to where Alf and Bob were waiting...
...doubt refined working as the society page editor fo the Chicago Trbiune for several years. Stories of working side by side with Ring Lardner and Charlie McCarthur are as interesting as the tales of life as a New Deal Democrat in Chicago society (one socialite slapped her for opposing Alf Landon). The experiences of later years take on more significance: discussing with Truman the idea of dismissing General McArthur, urging a reluctant Adlai Stevenson to seek the nomination...