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...universities, Ann Arbor was in a ferment over the New Deal. The standard bull-session topics of sex and religion went out the window, and long debates raged over the day's headlines from Washington. Soapy thought of himself as a liberal Republican, but a close friend, Jim Denison (now a successful Los Angeles lawyer), convinced him that there could be no such animal. Soapy flipped resoundingly into the New Deal camp, much to the distress of his family. (Elma Williams, in moments of political outrage, still sometimes calls her son a D.D., for damned Democrat...
...Denison proudly presented his new convert to Mother Denison, who was visiting the campus. Afterwards. Mrs. Denison said thoughtfully: "I am very much impressed with your friend Soapy. He is a Franklin Roosevelt at 24. He will some day be President...
...with plausible evidence, accuses the well-mannered Sharpes of kidnaping her, beating her, and holding her prisoner in their attic as a rather unusual method of solving their servant problem.* In the face of mounting community hostility, the perplexing case is finally cracked by a young lawyer (Michael Denison), who has taken an interest in the proceedings-as well as in Miss Sharpe...
DOROTHY G. KNAUR Denison, Texas...
...little before 7:30 the next morning, Eisenhower and a few of his aides clambered into an American Airlines DC-6. First stop in Texas was Denison (pop. 18,000), where Ike rode slowly down the main street in a green Chrysler convertible through crowds that pushed out to shake his hand. In the town's East Side, just across the Missouri-Kansas-Texas R.R. tracks, the motorcade stopped before a cheap, two-story, white clapboard house, whose front gate bears the sign "Eisenhower's Birthplace." At Forest Park, he made a brief, nostalgic talk about his homecoming...