Word: ballroomful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lost Landslide. Below, the ballroom was slowly filling with party workers, ready to watch the avalanche bury Harry Truman. Campaign Manager Herb Brownell emerged from his closely guarded headquarters to announce: "It is now apparent tha we will wind up by sweeping two-thirds of the states." Television cameras trained their lenses on the balcony, where the candidate was expected to appear, along around midnight, for a triumphal speech to the faithful...
Last Call. Gradually a crawling uncertainty seized the Hotel Roosevelt. Up in the candidate's suite, Dewey smoked one Marlboro cigarette after another in his aluminum holder. Young John fell asleep. At midnight, his brother Tom was sent to bed. In the ballroom people started to trickle out. An elevator operator asked if it were true that they were stretching nets outside Dewey's windows. In a gallant effort, a Dewey worker shouted defiantly: "Are we downhearted?" Faintly, the crowd denied...
Said he: "We now know that Governor Dewey will carry New York State by 50,000 and will be the next President of the United States." Deweymen sighed in relief. Everything was all right, after all. A rumor swept the ballroom that Dewey was on his way down for a victory speech before the television cameras. But Dewey did not appear. Doubt crept back. News came that Truman was taking a lead in Ohio and Iowa, was surging up in California. Deweymen hung on, drank large amounts of whiskey with glum, unhappy concentration...
...homme. The things the Drew family hold dear, she told her audience in her fearless French. "are shared by countless Canadians who want to build an even greater country for their children." That sort of talk stirred the 1,700 men & women packed in the Windsor's ballroom and Peacock Alley to sing the jaunty Vive la Canadienne in her honor...
Notre Dame's fancy football team, on a 24-game undefeated streak, worked out last week in the ballroom of the Lord Baltimore Hotel. With doors locked, visitors excluded, and street shoes on their feet, halfbacks feinted & faked under the crystal chandeliers. Coach Frank Leahy was giving his new U-formation (with two quarterbacks squatting just behind the center) a final tune-up. Leahy, the perfectionist, wanted to be sure...