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...Eisenhower's decision to speak off the cuff as much as possible has helped to get him across to his audiences. Ike, however, sometimes seems to have a balloon up that cuff. A sentence will start simply, belly out and break loose from its grammatical moorings. Sometimes it lands safely, sometimes it floats on & on. Sample free balloons from last week...
Even before the N.E.A. convention, its headquarters had issued a sharp statement defending N.E.A. leadership, and charging distortions and inaccuracies in the article. Out-of-date statements by Rugg and others, said the N.E.A., must be read as off-the-cuff theorizing that never was accepted by the N.E.A...
Cheers interrupted Eisenhower 30 times in 28 minutes, engulfed him at the end. But how effective was his off-the-cuff experiment? It put across his strong and often moving sincerity. It created a suspense (will he make a mistake?) which some found exciting and others painful. While Ike has much off-the-cuff speaking experience, he was not quite equal to the hazards of public-address systems (sound engineers vainly worked on the Detroit p.a. system till the last minute), the emotional impact of facing a vast crowd, the split-minute timing necessary for TV and radio. Ike rambled...
...certainly put on a different kind of campaign. He has scared the professional politicians by saying "I don't know" when he doesn't know, by talking off the cuff, and (as he put it in Denver this week) "saying what is in my heart." Sound or not, that is the way Eisenhower intends to run his show...
...years spiritual leader of Galveston's Temple B'nai Israel, whom Woodrow Wilson called "the First Citizen of Texas"; in Houston. British-born Henry Cohen came to Galveston in 1888, soon became famous for scurrying through the streets and stopping to jot down on his long, white cuff ("my notebook") the names of those he must help, regardless of creed ("There is no such thing as Methodist mumps, Baptist domestic troubles, Presbyterian poverty or Catholic broken legs"). His interest in parole work was sparked by Author O. Henry, a onetime convict, and he became a leader in Texas...