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...straw vote plan to go to the polls, compared with under 30 percent at the College, and just over 10 percent at Radcliffe. The chief cause of the declining figures appeared to be ago, residence, and absentee ballot requirements. Results of Crimson Presidential Poll College by Houses DEWEY TRUMAN THOMAS WALLACE THURMOND UNDECIDED OTHER Adams 156 58 23 11 4 9 12 Dudley 68 41 12 9 1 3 5 Dunster 69 52 11 15 3 7 5 Eliot 105 54 10 6 12 1 6 Kirkland 100 47 12 22 19 2 3 Leverett...
Gene Autry and his rodeo clattered into the Boston Garden last Tuesday afternoon, just at the five o'clock rush hour, thereby nosing out both President Truman, who rolled into town just at the five o'clock rush hour on Wednesday, and Governor Dewey, who arrived just as the folks were going home Thursday evening...
...blandishments of partisan politics by refusing to budge for either the Republicans or the Democrats. Unofficially, Autry's price for stabling his cowpunchers for one evening was reported to be twenty thousand dollars. So the two candidates went elsewhere--Truman to the dark and looming caverns of Mechanics Hall, Dewey to the comparative intimacy of the Arena...
...Governor Dewey came down the runway into the biggest ovation Boston has seen since Franklin Roosevelt. A solid wall of noise filled the hall for five minutes. Through it all, Dewey stood to one side of the podium, his head raised, his arms outstretched to the cheers, his face smiling. It is quite true that he smiles very badly. The trouble is he can't smile slowly--one instant his face is serious and then very suddenly, as if a switch has been thrown, he is grinning rigidly and coldly...
When the crowd quieted finally, he began. He spoke for half an hour and there wasn't a harsh note in the whole speech. It had all the acid bits of a bowl of breakfast cereal. If the speech was at all typical of the whole tour, then Dewey has made the mildest the blandest campaign for major political office in America in this century...