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American history teems with examples of the eye-gouging, ear-biting style, and on the whole, one prefers that to, say, Thomas E. Dewey in 1948, twitching his little moustache, writing letters home to his mother with the news of the day ("Dear Mater," he would begin), and saying things like, "The future lies before...
...captain Tim Martin, the unchallenged star of the team, paced the competition by winning the 1000-meter freestyle in one of the fastest times in the country. The youth also turned up in the opening meet, with freshmen Ryan Parmenter and Rick Dewey placing first and second in the 200 freestyle and sophomore Matt Wrenshall finishing third. Other standouts included junior Michael Im and Shevchik...
...November Republican presidential candidate Dewey ahead in University and national polls, but underdog Truman wins. Yale beats Harvard...
...each stop to "give 'em hell" and introduce "the boss," Bess Truman. The most famous campaign picture of all time is of a grinning Truman standing on the platform of the Magellan in St. Louis, Mo., holding up an early edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune with the headline DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN...
...stories of train campaigning will grow with each retelling. A few political veterans recall Tom Dewey's blurting into an open mike when his train lurched backward that he must have "a lunatic engineer." The New York Times's Scotty Reston ended his account of that particular incident with this line: "And then the train took off with a jerk...