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Students' Choice. He drew overflow audiences at Dayton and Hamilton, was vociferously cheered by 3,500 Miami University students who had just held a mock convention, in which he was nominated for President. By week's end he had made Taft's campaign seem dull and almost apathetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Battle of Ohio | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...LEONARD WENER Dayton, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 26, 1948 | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

This week he hustled back to stump in Ohio industrial cities (among them: Dayton, Toledo, Akron, Cleveland). Senator Taft, hurriedly canceling other plans, sped out to Ohio. The Senator had his gloves off. "Mr. Stassen," he cried, "could have been elected Senator two years ago and been in Washington to help us Republicans do our job. It would have been easy. He chose instead to spend two years running for the presidency." From now on, the going would be rough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Man to Beat | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...spring's gaudy carpet rolled north last week, the drive-in theaters were opening almost as fast as the daffodils. This week, New York City will get its first "ozoner": a 600-car, $300,000 affair on Staten Island. Six were open in Dayton, Ohio alone, and six would be running in St. Louis by summer. According to Boxoffice, more than 200 new drive-ins this year would swell the U.S. total-a mere 100-odd when war ended-to 546 built & building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ozoners | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

There is not really much mystery about green, red or other-colored rain. A quick-acting biologist could probably have proved with a few squints through a microscope that Dayton's rain got its color from algae (microscopic plants) sucked up by a tornado. Full-sized tornadoes can lift heavy objects (such as signboards) high into the clouds. Even little whirlwinds can vacuum-clean the surface of a pond and deposit its green scum many miles away as discolored rain. Sometimes small fish or frogs are sucked up (and later dropped) with the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Perennial Mystery | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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