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Next day, out at Convention Hall, after the G. 0. P. had picked Charles McNary of Oregon for his running mate (see p. 16), Mr. Willkie appeared in person. He had prepared no speech. On the way out, he had turned over some sentences in his mind. With Mrs. Willkie he walked down the centre aisle, while the band blared his theme song Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho! It's Back to Work We Go, Republicans cheered, balloons and confetti rained down from the galleries. Said Wendell Willkie, shaking his big head: "Forty-eight days, and only forty-eight days...
Born on an Oregon farm, he went to Leland Stanford University. Like his running mate, he was a lawyer. He began his political career in 1906 as an Assistant District Attorney. In 1917 he went to the Senate. Still a farmer at heart, whenever he can leave Washington he makes tracks for Salem, Ore., where he owns a farm, bird sanctuary, an experimental laboratory, in which he developed the world's largest prune, the Imperial. Nuts are also a hobby, especially filberts...
Said Mr. McNary, who had never met or even seen his running mate (their first conversation was on the telephone last week): "I am profoundly conscious of the confidence reposed in me by the Convention. I wish they had imposed this chore on someone else. However, I'll be a good soldier and do the best...
Fight fans saw a slight improvement on the first: a more aggressive Louis, less befuddled by his ring mate's antics; a more upright Godoy, less bent on self-preservation. For six rounds, iron-jawed, oak-legged Godoy, his left eye dripping blood from a first-round bombardment, stuck close to his adversary, withstood his short-range punches. But, in the seventh, he succumbed. In the eighth, Godoy was knocked down again for a count of eight, and a few seconds later, still charging crazily like a wounded bull, collapsed from exhaustion...
Choosing a college is like choosing a mate: it covers a lot of ground, it is tinged with sentiment and nobody knows exactly how it is done. Last week a professional old grad, Columbia University's Alumni Secretary Clarence E. Lovejoy, tried to reduce the guesswork in college-choosing by publishing a collegiate Baedeker titled So You're Going to College (Simon & Schuster...