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...White House had refused to verify any definite Roosevelt speaking engagements beyond the Oct. 5 talk to party workers (see below). But the speech to the Teamsters fired Term IV Chairman Bob Hannegan with almost uncontrollable enthusiasm for the President's oratorical wizardry. Moving in Manhattan's café society, zealous Bob Hannegan began to have dazzling ideas about an old-time Roosevelt campaign tour. He made proposals to Democratic bigwigs; he jiggled dates with Madison Square Garden officials. The rumors grew: there might be two speeches in New York City, one in upper New York State...
Cartoonists, to Arms! Some of the columnists who were embroiled deeply in the Term III campaign were oddly aloof. Walter Lippmann and Dorothy Thompson seemed preoccupied with the larger world. But Walter Winchell campaigned indefatigably, rallying café society to the Term IV cause with a rapid-fire retelling of anti-Dewey stories...
...Scribe basement an Army mess has been set up, which keeps bodies and souls joined but leaves us completely unsatisfied. (The chef has managed to destroy the old myth that you can give a Frenchamn even Army rations and he will make something tasty out of them.) But the Café de la Paix is just around the corner and gets a good deal of our trade...
...gone "fishing to Coney Island," was never seen again. Lou's immigrant mother peddled hairpins and shoelaces, met, married and went West with a man named Holtz. Lou grew up in San Francisco, got stage-struck while still learning fractions, at 16 started singing in a dingy little café. Elsie Janis heard him, told him to head for Broadway...
Grinning Belgians made a point of sitting at sidewalk cafés to sip beer or lemonade and watch the retreat-tattered, dusty men, walking, piled on horse-drawn carts, or riding bicycles which were sometimes without tires. Madly the Germans tried to exchange rum, margarine and other rations for civilian clothes. Fascist Rexists had waited three days at the railway station for a train that never came, then slunk off to hide as best they could. Said a German officer: "We do not like traitors; we merely use them...