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...foxy head under Keef's coonskin cap is the knowledge that he cannot win the nomination without support from the top party leaders. On the hustings, he attacks political machines, but when he approaches the White House door he treads as softly as Daniel Boone stalking...
Four Blocks Away. Russell lost no time in taking aim at Estes' coonskin cap. Said he: "I understand my opponent has been here and addressed you . . . He's a member of the Armed Services Committee of which I am chairman. He is more fortunate than I in being able to stay away from Washington to present his candidacy. I have not been able to do that because I have certain specific legislative responsibilities . . . We would have been glad to have him with us to work . . . on important matters...
...seniors massed at the post to await the starting whistle. For the first hundred yards an unidentified male wearing a coonskin coat and a beanie led the runners. But he and the whole field had to give way to a skillful roller from West Newton named Mary Lou Lyon, who, though starting in the third file, had the skill and luck to outlast her classmates in the grueling grind...
While Taft and Eisenhower dueled on the front pages for headlines and votes, the third man bustled quietly around the country. Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver, coonskin cap a-perk on his head, pretty wife smiling at his side, was convincing thousands at the fork of the crick that he was THE Democratic candidate for the presidency. In the five weeks since carrying the New Hampshire primary, he had proved himself a truly magnificent handshaker, fried chicken eater, baby admirer, Kiwanis hypnotizer and a past master of the big platitude...
Meanwhile, having raced unopposed through the Illinois primary, Kefauver headed west to campaign, wearing the air of a man who had no doubts at all about his fitness to serve as President. He visited Hollywood studios (and gave Actor George Montgomery a coonskin cap to wear as Daniel Boone in The Pathfinder), shook hands with 1,500 Democrats at a San Francisco box supper, and not only soothed audiences with generalities but stood up and took a stand on some controversial issues...