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...newspapers. As wife of the president of Columbia University, she did the sensible thing, and acted since she was a stranger to the academic world - as if she were on some unfamiliar Army post. But at Marnes-la-Coquette, the 14-room French mansion which the Eisen howers occupied when Ike commanded SHAPE, Mamie served a unique appren ticeship for life in the White House...
...Eisenhower headquarters in New York's Commodore Hotel last week, Christmas jollity manifested itself chiefly in the bounding of plastic grasshoppers. An old and previously unnamed plaything, the toy grasshopper, which has springy metal legs and a rubber suction cup on its belly, was promptly christened "the Eisen-hopper" by fascinated newsmen. Introduced into Ike's offices by his old friend, Toy Manufacturer Louis Marx, the Eisenhopper caught the President-elect's fancy. Talking business with serious-faced guests, Ike would casually press a hopper on to his desk, and roar with delight when, seconds later...
...Midnight. The Republican tide rose higher in the West, washed back through the East and welled deeper into the crumbling South. By 11:20, Ike led in 34 states with 352 electoral votes, including 20 states carried by Harry Truman in 1948. The popular vote: Eisen hower 8,544,000, Stevenson...
...Pennsylvania, the G.O.P. pulled steadily ahead. At 12:40, the New York Times swung its Manhattan beacon northward above the neon glow of Times Square, a signal that the Times accepted the Eisen hower victory as assured...
Last summer, the men behind the Eisen-hower-for-President campaign were supremely confident. Once Ike agreed to accept, they said, neither Taft nor gloom of night could stop his nomination. "We don't need any organizations or managers," said former Senator Harry Darby of Kansas. "The only question is the general's availability." By October, the Ikemen had conceded the need for organization. But as late as December, the campaign manager, Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., was still calm. Said he: "There's plenty of time...