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...other instantly (see cut). She had married a wine importer, Michel Van den Bogaerde, and they had come to the U. S. Business got bad, and Michel had opened a small restaurant in Greenwich Village. To help family finances, Julia was working as a companion to Mrs. Frederick C. Horner, wife of the assistant to the chairman of General Motors. Her two sons were in school. The two old friends lunched, talked about Courtrai, 1918. So as not to spoil their reunion, they avoided the subject of Courtrai...
...trend looked even more significant when these factors were added: the entire strength of the Kelly-Nash-Horner machine, upstate & down, was geared to roll up an overwhelming total for the President. The goal was 16-to-1, with Mr. Garner on the short end. Ten-to-one was taken for granted; mousy pollsters who timidly forecast 8-to-1 were fleered...
...Henry Horner was known to one-&-all in Illinois as an honest, jovial old baldicoot who loved movies, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and his job as Governor. In November 1938, good Mr. Horner fell ill, straightway became a man of mystery. In the last 17 months probably no more than a dozen people have seen him. His illness has been variously reported: a stroke, a second stroke, a third, a blood clot, a heart spasm, cancer of the throat, pneumonia, diabetes, paralysis...
Kelly & Nash quickly agreed with Mr. Horner on a Horner henchman as the gubernatorial candidate: Harry B. Hershey, 54, a genial party hack. Mr. Kelly, inveterate Third Termite, struck off a heart-rending slogan for last week's primary: "For Roosevelt and Humanity." On primary day Mr. Roosevelt ran fairly well (see p. 14), but Humanity had rough going. While Mr. Stelle was properly crushed by the machine-voters seemed to resent his "seizure" of the Governorship the day before-the Republican vote showed the Kelly-Nash-Horner machine parlous times ahead...
PENROSE H. RADLEY RALPHE MERRILL JOSEPH EARL HORNER WARREN F. BRASS JANICE LEE TORBERT Helena, Mont...