Word: emporia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first omens were discouraging. When the train stopped at Emporia for a crew change, Ike's green campaign managers suddenly realized that it was time for the candidate to make a back-platform appearance. Then, to their horror, they discovered that the duck-tailed streamliner had no back platform. Ike spent the first few minutes waving and grinning through the windows at the crowd. A porter struggled with a small door at the rear of the car and finally got it open. Ike stepped to the door and was just reaching down to shake an upstretched hand...
...three-column editorial at the top of Page One. "At rare intervals in the life of a free people the man and the occasion meet," the editorial began. It went on to say that the paper thinks Ike is the man for President on this occasion.* In Emporia, Kans., Editor W. L. White (son of the late William Allen White) put his Gazette on the line for Eisenhower, "an essential Kansas character." In Topeka, a central Eisenhower-for-President office was opened. It is expected to become the national headquarters, to give the campaign that Midwest, home-state flavor...
...Director Charles Laughton calls "the huge neglected audience" began last February. Since then, in three tours consisting mostly of one-night stands, Don Juan in Hell has proved a steady sellout everywhere, in arenas, theaters and stadiums, outgrossing South Pacific in Denver, drawing an audience of 3,800 in Emporia, Kans. (pop. 15,500), emptying Carnegie Hall's ticket racks in eight hours. Total receipts so far: about...
...waters rolled into Manhattan (pop. 18,996) in raging flood, and businessmen along the main streets had to be taken out in boats. More than 20,000 people were driven from their homes in Topeka, the state capital. Flood water spilled over the Santa Fe railroad tracks near Emporia and for 55 hours stranded 337 passengers in the crack passenger train El Capitan. Rancher Bill Brandt landed his small plane on a nearby highway 15 times to bring in supplies and to take out five sick passengers...
Truth & Consequences. In Emporia, Kans., Carl Tate Williams drew 90 days after he denied that he was a Peeping Tom, told the judge that he was merely looking for something to steal...