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...Democratic candidate's first brush with the magic touch was provided by chunky John R. McFaden, a pressagent hired by the California Democratic Central Committee. Moved by the dramatic possibilities in Stevenson's scheduled visit to his birthplace on Los Angeles' Monmouth Avenue, McFaden wrote out a script for the occasion. The pressagent was particularly inspired by a vision of Stevenson marching up the walk to his childhood home. "This," read the script, "should be done with reasonable reverence in such a manner as to give cameramen a dramatic shot of a historical figure returning...
Shortly before the visit, the Stevenson party learned from grinning newsmen of the existence of the McFaden drama. While the governor preserved a stony silence, one of his aides hurried out to Monmouth Avenue to inform McFaden that Stevenson wouldn't follow the script, and didn't want any glass of water. Half an hour later, Stevenson himself appeared, went through a scriptless visit...
...Jackson, Lawrence Jacob, Benjamin Newhall Johnson, Edward Francis Johnson, Joseph French Johnson, Arthur Mason Jones, Walter Kessler, Philip Coombs Knapp, Nathan Ryno Smith Lanier, Rosewell Bigelow Lawrence, John Clarence Lee, Lucius Nathan Littauer, Warren Plimpton Lombard, Augustus Peabody Loring, Clinton William Lucas, Frederic Lutz, Henry Burden McDowell, Robert Dean McFaden, Henry White Mason, Julian Augustus Mead, James Watts Mercur, William Star Miller, Ogden Mills, Henry Watmough Montague, Charles Moore, Edward Cook Moore, John Holmes Morrison, Edwin Wilson Morse, Herbert Floyd Willis Morse, John Archibald Murray, George William Nash, Henry Sylvester Nash, Samuel Newell Nelson, Edgar Hamilton Nichols, William John Oliver...
Messrs. Donaldson, '79; Hastings, '78; Willison, '79; McFaden, '78; Ely, '78; J. Parker, '78; W. H. Allen, '78; De Billier, '78; Balch, '78; Brewster, '79; Griswold, '79; Stiles, '77; Watson...
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