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Last week G. O. P.'s Wendell Willkie got some more rest. He lolled on the lawns and terraces of the famous Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. He flew over the tawny Colorado Rockies (from Central City, where he attended a frontier music festival, to Denver, where he chinned with stockmen and sugar-beet growers). He puttered around the International Typographical Union's stock farm, chumming up to Holstein-Friesian cattle. He chatted with the San Francisco Chronicle's bumptious young Editor Paul Smith. He talked campaign strategy with Colorado's Governor Carr, Iowa...
...Broadmoor, and even while flying (see cut), Candidate & Mrs. Willkie spent much time beside a portable radio, listening to the Democrats being whooped up in Chicago (see p. 11). Unlike many another listener, Wendell Willkie was not bored. Having predicted his own nomination on the sixth ballot in Philadelphia, Mr. Willkie predicted Franklin Roosevelt's renomination on the first ballot in Chicago. But until "we-want-Roosevelt" chants began to liven the broadcasts, Candidate Willkie was glum. When the news came, he happily puffed a cigaret: "Boy, I think my worries are over...
...University of Washington's arboretum is a lush, tree-planted, 260-acre park built by WPA, west of Seattle's exclusive Broadmoor district. It was the scene last week of a really glittering occasion. After speeches, orchestra music, ceremonies broadcast by radio, plump, close-coupled Collector of Customs Saul Haas, Seattle's Democratic patronage dispenser, lifted a pair of scissors, slashed the gauze covering of an ordinary-looking box. Out twinkled 200 fireflies...
...Duff Cooper said fortnight ago that the European situation is "far more critical today than in 1914" (TIME, June 22). Cried Lord Ponsonby: "He should be arrested as a deliberate, dangerous and disgraceful scaremonger! He has shown himself to be a halfwit. The only fit place for him is Broadmoor! [asylum for the criminally insane...
Engaged, Lawson Little, 24, amateur golf champion of the U. S. and England (TIME, Sept 23); and Dorothy Hurd, 18, Chicagoan whom he met two years ago at the Broadmoor Golf Club, Colorado Springs...