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Some notables in both parties showed reluctance to campaign for their own sides. Wendell Willkie, still abed in a Manhattan hospital for a physical checkup, discussed for Collier's the "inadequate" Negro planks in both party platforms. Minnesota's G.O.P. Senator Joseph H. Ball reported his fear that Tom Dewey was not internationalist-minded enough. Said Senator Ball: "I would violate my own deepest conviction if I were at this time ... to campaign for Governor Dewey." And at a newsmen's luncheon in Manhattan, ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker cracked: "Like Farley, I'm still a Democrat...
This panoply of efficiency is no more invariably efficient than its parallels in civilian life. There was one occasion last spring when his Washington superiors, after a checkup, temporarily stepped in to help. With invasion only a few weeks away, General Lee's organization had not yet ordered 214 items (adding up to some 300,000 units) for the invasion. That assist from Washington may have helped smooth the invasion, and General Lee's record...
Meantime, while Joe was enjoying himself and being indoctrinated, he got a thorough physical and psychiatric checkup, had his teeth filled and his papers put in order...
Some 400 grinning natives greeted the three Washington specialists (a nose-&-throat man, an internist, a dentist). They had arrived in the Pribilof Islands, north of the Aleutians, for a quick checkup on the health of the seal hunters, who are wards of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The doctors found the Aleuts in generally excellent health. But they were shocked when Aleut children opened their mouths. Their teeth were bad (the dentist promptly took samples of their drinking water for analysis). Their tonsils were worse...
Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby, WACommander, was a patient in the Army's huge Brooke General Hospital in San Antonio. Pending a complete medical checkup, her ailment was diagnosed as "exhaustion...