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Ufford defeated John Russell, who is ranked eleventh nationally, to win his first match, but lost in the second round to Calvin McCracken of the Princeton Club...
After lunch, Stevenson mounted the steps of McCracken County Courthouse for an informal speech in which he sang Barkley's praises and expressed himself unsurprised that a platform had collapsed under Eisenhower at Richmond, Va. Cracked Stevenson: "I've been telling him for two months that nobody could stand on that platform." At Louisville, later the same day, the Illinois governor blasted Ike's foreign policy views in less whimsical terms...
...University of Virginia law school, home reading, and a term of clerking in the office of Paducah's famous old Judge William Bishop (fictionalized as Judge Priest by Paducah's other famous citizen, Irvin S. Cobb). Law led to politics, and in 1905 Barkley rambled through McCracken County on a one-eyed horse, stopping at every farmhouse to swap stories and get himself elected county prosecuting attorney. The next jump (in 1909) was to county judge, and the next (in 1912) was a stump campaign for good roads. It landed him in Congress...
...Sunday the Eisenhowers slipped off to the ii a.m. service at the interdenominational Riverside Church, stopped after the sermon to chat with the minister, Dr. Robert J. McCracken. Ten minutes after they got back home, Pennsylvania's Governor John Fine arrived for lunch and a political conference (see below) which lasted nearly four hours. After that the delegate parade was on: by the end of the week, when he makes his Detroit speech, Ike will have shaken the hands of some 500 delegates from 18 states...
...Robert J. McCracken, pastor of Manhattan's Riverside Church (see below), in The Churchman...