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...telephoned the next day: "Dad, it's go." Recalls Albert Sr.: "I knocked a hole in the roof with a Comanche yell." Pauline explains, "I think my son had to establish that it would be his campaign and that he'd be doing it in his own way." Jane Eskind, an admiring fellow Tennessee Democrat, observes, "Albert Sr. sees in Al Jr. the fulfillment of his own dreams...
...Democrat Jane Eskind, who ran a foredoomed race in Tennessee against Republican Senator Howard Baker, still managed to get 464,000 votes, more than any other woman in the state's history. "We have women in the courthouse, city hall, mayor's chair and state legislature," says Eskind. "But I think voting for a woman for national office is still an issue in Tennessee." Indeed, it is in most states...
...politics?money. Women are less likely than men to make large donations. Sharon Sharp, Republican nominee for Illinois secretary of state, was approached after a speech by a woman in an expensive suit and flowing fur coat who excitedly thrust a check at her. It was for $5. Jane Eskind, who has the uphill task of opposing Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker in Tennessee, has had to rely on her own money ($100,000 so far). "Men are more comfortable contributing large amounts," she says. "They also have access...
...Ellen Eskind '79 rises at 4 a.m. every morning to start feeding tape from the "Carter-Mondale Radio News Network" to stations across New England and New York. The network, financed by the national campaign, takes "news, not propaganda" clips from the Democratic candidates' statements and sends them free to hundreds of stations, many of which put them on the air, Eskind, regional co-director of the project, says...
Dunster House elected Richard J. Eskind, Thomas J. Hunt, and Peter B. Walker junior members to its House committee yesterday. William A. Day, Jr. and John Welum tied for fourth place...