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...first since the exhausting election campaign. He reported on his physical condition. He weighed 173 lbs. "bedside," he told reporters. He was tanned and relaxed. Correspondent Tom Reynolds of the New Dealing Chicago Sun-Times reported: "He speaks now with tones of authority . . . confident of his mandate." From his cracker-barrel perch on the arch-Republican New York Sun, Columnist H. I. Phillips wrote reassuringly: "I think Harry's hat still fits . . . and that always in his ear he hears his mom whispering, 'Behave yourself, Harry...
...pointed to a corner of the Llandudno Grand Hotel's lounge, where Leopold Amery sat, sparrowlike, on the edge of a big easy chair, munching a cracker and talking to a circle of followers. In the opposite corner sprawled Anthony Eden, expounding his viewpoint to his own group of disciples. Both had to shout to be heard above the squeaky strains of a teatime violin, piano and cello...
...Success. The torch which had set the fire was Harold Stassen's own relentless campaigning. In the last month before the election, while Dewey and MacArthur remained aloof in their own headquarters, Stassen had raced back & forth across Wisconsin, making at least 35 major speeches, holding countless cracker-barrel discussions at every Wisconsin crossroads...
...posed with the leader of the oompah German band, no one missed his jab at MacArthur: "This is not a war crisis-it is a peace crisis. Military genius, no matter how excellent, is not the answer." At Eau Claire, he leaned back against a table and talked with cracker-barrel familiarity to local farmers about mastitis, Bang's disease and silage. He confided: "My prime interest outside of my family and job is my farm...
...conflicts of a world torn, between accumulation of money and development of personality. But what did Wolfe mean by his affirmation that "we shall be found?" Wolfe was himself lost; he had only the foggiest notions about modern science and modern thought and throughout his life he indulged in cracker-barrel sneering at intellectuals. He was a confused boy with a great gift for language, whose significance as a writer was, as critic Alfred Kazin put it, "that he expanded his boyhood into a lifetime...