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Ohio's dignified Senator John Bricker walked briskly toward the tiled subway under the Senate Office Building. With him was J. H. Macomber, Expenditures Committee clerk. As they approached the little monorail, open-top trolley that trundles Senators to the Capitol, a shot split the air. Bricker and Macomber whirled. About 15 steps behind them, they saw a grey, sharp-faced little man frantically breaking open a smoking, single-shot target pistol to reload...
...that they had the time of their lives on this hot weather assignment. As one correspondent put it: "It was really refreshing to cover a story like this. No speeches; no fussing with the technicalities of chain reaction; no political talk about Russia or Harry Truman or John Bricker. Just people looking at animals and birds, and vice versa...
...living in a truck. He told a yarn about a Communist he worked with in a war plant in 1944. It took about 500 words and several minutes for Taylor to reach the point: ''The Communist would go around talking to everybody, saying that he was for Bricker for President. He said to me, 'Do you know why I have been arguing for Bricker? Because if we can elect Bricker we will have a revolution in short order.' " Ohio's solemn Senator Bricker joined in the laugh...
When the results were announced this week, Stassenmen wished they had worked harder on the 1,159 delegates, and Dewey-men laughingly wondered why they had been worried. The poll showed these top choice results: Dewey 321; Stassen 286; Douglas MacArthur 157; Robert A. Taft 97; John Bricker 77; Arthur Vandenberg 59. Eighth choice of Wisconsin Republicans: Wisconsin's ex-Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr.-seven votes...
...them vividly. He found New York's Governor Dewey "as devoid of charm as a rivet . . . able, dramatic . . . a man who will never try to steal second unless the pitcher breaks his leg." Taft is an amalgam of "brain power . . . sincerity . . . majestic wrongheadedness . . . Brobdingnagian bad judgments." Gunther on Bricker: "Intellectually he is like interstellar space-a vast vacuum occasionally crossed by homeless, wandering clichés." Gunther finds U.S. public life full of "poltroons, chiselers, parvenus . . . politicians bloated with intellectual edema." But after all, he says, the U.S. is the "craziest, most dangerous, least stable, most spectacular, least grownup...