Word: deweyitis
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...Dewey, dressed in sweater and grey flannels, played golf last week† to relax from the first round of his campaign, and studied ring technique to prepare for his next. The question he faced: should he try to outbox Franklin Roosevelt, or to out-slug...
...mile cross-country trip, he had been content to jab steadily, pushing the champ off balance, until Franklin Roosevelt came out with his old haymaking right hook. (TIME, Oct. 2). Even then, Tom Dewey labeled his own slugging back at Oklahoma City a "digression." But that toe-to-toe digression had brought Republican cheers. Republican ringsiders, who had sat on their hands while Tom Dewey endorsed New Deal measures, clapped, shouted and sent telegrams, demanding more of the same. Next night, on his homeward journey to Albany, Dewey abandoned his previous objections to barnstorming, was still happily "digressing," making back...
...well knew, from their cheers, that more slugging would please his old Republican fans-but he had their votes already. And although the odds were still on the champ, good news, with few exceptions, poured in so steadily to the Dewey headquarters that one problem was to avoid overoptimism...
Over no man's land circled the observers, calmly calculating how went the battle. Their guesses stood as betting odds, which generally stood about 3-to-1 on Franklin Roosevelt. Actually a citizen who wanted to bet on Dewey got 12-to-5 odds; a Roosevelt bettor...
Call the Celebrities. Hollywood fought glamor with glamor. The Hollywood-for-Dewey Committee had nice legs, a pretty wit and good lungs : Ginger Rogers, Hedda Hopper, Rosalind Russell, Cecil B. de Mille, Anne Baxter, Leo Carrillo and Adolphe Menjou. So did the Hollywood Committee of New Dealers: Rita Hayworth, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles, Harpo Marx, Lana Turner, Walter Huston, Fanny Brice...