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...heat next day, with the Canadian entry out of the running because of broken plankings, Slo-Mo-Shun gave up dawdling. With a look at the smooth water, Sayres told Driver Fageol: "Try one lap at 100 m.p.h. or better." Lou opened the throttle of his 1,800-h.p. Allison engine, tried for one lap, then another and another ("She ran so smoothly I just decided to keep my foot down"). By the end of the second lap, My Sweetie had dropped out with a broken oil line. By the sixth lap, Slo-Mo-Shun was a full five miles...
...succeeding months, as Harry Truman popped in & out of the state clapping Em Allison encouragingly on the back, the Democratic Party bucked and groaned like a plow that had hit a patch of Ozark hardscrabble. Most Democrats thought that Thomas C. Hennings Jr., a hearty St. Louis attorney who had earned a substantial reputation as a U.S. Congressman in the '30s, would make a better candidate and many of them were committed...
...state C.I.O. pulled itself together and came out for Allison, declaring that it guessed the President "ought to have the chance to vote for the man of his choice." Hennings countered that the right of free primaries was at stake, and pointed to his liberal record as a Congressman (A.F.L. President William Green told his unionists: "I can say he was your friend"). Governor Forrest Smith and St. Louis' Mayor Joseph Darst decided to stick with Harry Truman. "I ain't going to bite the hand that feeds me," said...
Exhorted, harangued and warned that a Hennings victory would be advertised as a repudiation of the President of the U.S., Missouri Democrats weighed Truman's man Allison. Last week, in a close race, they defeated...
...Truman's rebuff was possibly the Democrats' gain-Hennings looked like a better campaigner than Allison against the Republicans' Senator Forrest Donnell, an earnest, hair-splitting legalist in the Senate (where he is known as "The Big Itch"), but a cracker-barrel, Bible-quoting spellbinder along Missouri's back roads...