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Last week, in her apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, Mrs. Herbert Hoover, 68, died of a heart attack...
Like her husband, Lou Henry Hoover was Iowa-born; like him, she moved West at an early age. As a girl in Whittier, Calif., where her father was the town's first banker, she was tall, lanky, not over-strong. On long camping trips in the mountains with her father, she learned to love nature; later, at Leland Stanford University, she majored in natural history...
...since November 1942, got another bouquet. The Republican, official G.O.P. magazine, queried 3,500 State and county G.O.P. committeemen: "In general, do you agree with this leader's stand on foreign affairs?" From these professionals, Tom Dewey got the highest percentage of affirmative votes (48.3%), followed by Herbert Hoover (47.7%) and Wendell Willkie (41.4%). More than anything, the poll showed that G.O.P. committeemen considered men rather than issues. Almost all GOPresidential possibilities stand for some form of world organization; the practical committeemen voted most heavily for the man they trust the most at the moment...
...Daily Mirror rejoiced: "To use Mr. Landon's own expressive word again, the Moscow conference was a 'cheat'. . . . We need more of the Landon type of outspoken courage today." Some Republicans felt they could do with a bit less of it, and ex-President Herbert Hoover gallantly came to Mr. Landon's rescue. "The Governor did not take a position in opposition to the Moscow pact," explained Mr. Hoover in his most reasonable tone, thus baffling...
Throughout the week's Manhattan activity, the Landon-Hoover axis seemed to work smoothly in just one direction-against Wendell Willkie. Mr. Landon was curious as to "what ticket Mr. Willkie was aiming to end up on." In effect, two defeated GOPresidential candidates were helping a third one remain just that...