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...Grand Rapids, Mich., many citizens were jubilant-some because they disliked Nixon and many more because they were pleased that a home-town boy had made it to the White House. But when a Grand Rapids television station showed a scene of joy at a local bar, the flood of angry calls was so great that the station's newsroom stopped answering its phones. Throughout the nation, people were generally approving but restrained in their reaction to Ford: many just did not yet know enough about him. "He has an openness that appeals to me and, I would imagine...
Shaw is convoyed by Andy Turner, a home-town pal driving a green and white Ford camper in which the skater eats at least five meals a day (steak, hamburger or eggs). He has been getting a hero's greeting at small towns en route. He has also been treated at three hospitals for blisters and muscle strains. In Flora, Ill., where TIME'S Dick Woodbury first caught up with the long-distance roller, Shaw was made an honorary citizen by the mayor. In most towns he is besieged by autograph seekers and frequently treated to a free...
...emblematic of the fact that things are looking up in Philadelphia, that citadel of conservatism, the faded dowager of the East Coast, the yawn between New York City and Washington, the well-kicked butt of humor for comedians. Perhaps the cruelest cut of all came from W.C. Fields, a home-town boy, who was said to have proposed as his epitaph: "On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia...
...knew ten, and claimed in his brash youth to have registered in hotels in the area under names like "Benny Johnson," "Eddie Spenser" or "Al Tennyson." (He also described in one of his books "the most notorious whore-house in the state, located on a corner in my home-town where the public library now stands. I guess things have changed that much...
Contributing Editor Frank Merrick, who wrote the story with the help of Reporter-Researcher Anne Constable, never served in the military. He began his basic journalism training in the summers during college by working for his home-town paper in Holyoke, Mass. After a year with the Associated Press in 1965, he went to New Hamp shire to write in-depth articles for a group of small newspapers and covered Eugene McCarthy's New Hampshire primary as a stringer for TIME, after which he joined our Boston bureau as a correspondent. Merrick has been a Nation writer since June...