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...Wrote Columnist T.R.B. (the Christian Science Monitor's Richard L. Strout) in the rabidly anti-Nixon New Republic: "On the Nixon caravan everything goes right, on the Kefauver Special everything goes wrong . . . With genuine perplexity Republican columnists ask, 'Why is it people dislike Richard Nixon?' Honestly we don't know. We puzzle about it. Maybe it is because he flashes his smile off and on so like an electric light. (Kefauver rarely smiles or laughs or anything; occasionally there is a wide, quarter-moon grin...
That was by no means the only time that Pat Nixon helped her husband last week: she has developed into a first-rate campaigner. When Nixon halts his political caravan to jump out and shake hands with street-standers, Pat is right behind (or, a couple of times, a little ahead). Sometimes, as along College Street in Springfield, Mo., she handshakes her way down the opposite side of the street from Dick; sometimes she chats with ladies' groups. She also sits in on the late-at-night sessions in which Nixon and his staff review the previous...
...Marx Brotherhood. Plodding on through the Northern farm states and into the Northwest, Kefauver worked hard at flushing out the voters, but was sublimely oblivious to the fact that his caravan seemed to be in the hands of the anarchical Marx brothers. Nothing seemed to go right. Suitcases were lost, people missed the plane. Top Aide J. Howard McGrath, his sodden cigar clamped in his jaw, once absentmindedly darted into a ladies' room; local leaders along the route were frequently unprepared for the Keef's arrival-late as it invariably was. There was something of the horse-drawn...
...lost track of his subject only once: during a blinding New Jersey rainstorm, he became detached from the official caravan of long black limousines and began to trail another file of long black limousines until he discovered that he was bringing up the rear of a funeral procession...
...reacted to good news with boyish enthusiasm. When a midnight conference at the Rogers Hotel in Idaho Falls produced all twelve Idaho convention votes for him, he roamed the corridors searching for newsmen so they could telephone their papers. He found only one of his caravan's traveling reporters, who explained that the others were asleep, a call to New York where it was 3 a.m. would reach only the janitors. Harriman insisted the others be routed out. Said he: "This is the time they can get the story...