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...another working weekend at his Pawling farm. The only break for relaxation was his regular weekly 18 holes of golf (see cut). He shot a 94. The rest of the time was given to plans for the Governors' Conference, which he will go over with John Bricker this week. Just before leaving for New York, Candidate Bricker made the first comment of the Dewey-Bricker team on the Democratic Convention. Said he, scratching his brow: "Truman-that's his name, isn't it? I never can remember that name...
...Approved a new 15-man Republican National Committee. Included: Willkie's ex-campaign manager, Ralph H. Cake, Willkieite Senator Weeks, and John Bricker's convention manager...
...surprise of the convention was the man who said no and meant it. California's big, blond, husky Earl Warren could have had the Vice Presidential nomination. Republicans were sure that he-like Tom Dewey-only needed urging. His last-minute refusal put John Bricker on the ticket in his stead, and raised two questions: why had he declined, and why had he waited so long...
...Decision. But why had California's Governor allowed the "draft-Warren" movement to spread so far, so long? Best guess was that if the Republican Party had really needed him, he was willing to be had. His would have been a stronger name on the ticket than John Brickers. But when Bricker showed genuine Presidential strength on the Convention floor (in the delegates' hearts, if not in their ballots), it became good Dewey strategy to give Bricker the second place. Earl Warren, ready but reluctant to serve, stepped aside. In the months and years to come, he might...
Lady from Ohio. During World War I, brown-haired Harriet Day, a coed at Ohio State University, served coffee and doughnuts to troop trains passing through Columbus. One young soldier named John Bricker fell in love with Harriet's twinkling-eyed dignity, and after the war courted and married her. As a Columbus lawyer's wife Harriet Day Bricker painted, played the piano, gardened, composed song lyrics, raised son Jackie, 13, quietly helped her husband become Governor of Ohio. An efficient, handsome hostess, Mrs. Bricker will make no soapbox speeches in her husband's coming campaign...