Word: inded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Wendell Willkie went forth as an evangelist. For weeks he had smoldered in Rushville, Ind., reading reports that his campaign had stalled. The only answer he got to his daily denunciation of Franklin Roosevelt was an aloof and lofty silence. Mr. Willkie wanted to fight; Mr. Roosevelt made it plain that he was too busy to campaign. Angry, steam up, Mr. Willkie finally climbed aboard his campaign train...
...GlGNILLIAT Superintendent Culver Military Academy Culver, Ind...
Renegade Democrat. If Candidate Willkie had any inkling of all this, last week, he showed small concern. The only gloom in Rushville, Ind. was a deep, cool shade beneath black walnut and apple trees, out in back of t ie 80-year-old worn brick house on Harrison Street which he had rented as a temporary residence. Wearing carpet slippers, Willkie lolled under the trees, supremely confident of victory...
Fortnight ago Wendell Willkie had his portrait painted. He sat in Rushville, Ind. and Manhattan, never more than 40 minutes at a time, for a, total of two hours and a half. Last week he pronounced the job good: "an almost exact likeness." The man who painted him, lean, dapper, longish-haired John Doctoroff, exclaimed: "Oh, God, there was nothing so hard in my life. It was like painting a moving picture...
...Psychology. Dr. Glenn L. Ebright of Hammond, Ind. reported that cats who are frightened when taken to the hospital "become acclimated much more readily if they are kept in the same unit with dogs." If noisy, they "can often be pacified by placing a mouse in a jar where they can watch...