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...Tell 'Em to Go Home." Kefauver's Minnesota excursion, on the other hand, was a sorrowful experience. His advisers, a handful of Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party outcasts, handed him impossible schedules, spent most of their time squabbling among themselves about how their candidate should spend his time. One day the Keef wasted nearly two hours being driven around northwest Minneapolis while his guides looked for the offices of the Anoka Herald, a suburban newspaper. The motorcade headed in one direction, got lost, stopped at a filling station to inquire about the route, doubled back, stopped to ask again...
...scheduled to speak at St. Mary's College in Winona, 120 miles southeast of Minneapolis. His chartered plane was grounded by bad weather. After long and heated debate among Kefauver's advisers (during which one of them bitterly suggested that they "call Winona and tell 'em to go home and vote for Stevenson"), it was decided that Estes should drive. He was game, but the roads were icy. Two hours later, just as he should have been handclasping his way into the St. Mary's auditorium, Kefauver was barely halfway there. At last he gave...
...said: "All I have is an anonymous letter." Judge and grand jury decided that was good enough to warrant the publisher's release and suspension of fine, even though other newsmen suspected that Allen's sources were far more substantial. Said Allen: "I just agreed with 'em to lollipop 'em along...
...Groucho Marx's writers told it: an unemployed actor was interrupted at breakfast by his wife carrying a Dagwood sandwich of unpaid bills. "What'll I do with these?" she asked. Replied the actor, with a careless toss of the head: "Tear 'em up and order some more Miltown...
Songstress Betty Doyle, beer, and 12--count 'em, 12--high-kicking Bradford Junior College chorines will lure about 1000 freshmen into Memorial Hall tonight for the annual Freshman Smoker...