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It is rapidly becoming apparent to the sensible voter that his choice between presidential nominees is narrowing between a demonstrated leader who has earned the free world's confidence on the front page and a brilliant orator whose phrases might best be relegated to the political cartoon section . . .
Old Rockne fans may still believe in pep talks, but Strategist Waldorf, no orator, says that "the day of the inspired locker-room oration has long since passed." He pins his hopes on "long hours of hard work on the practice field."
Nixon (himself once a barker for a "carnie" wheel) had come to Springfield to compete with the Democrats' star attraction, Adlai Stevenson, on his own home grounds. In a broiling sun, Dick Nixon spoke to 9,000 Illinois Republicans. He proved himself no great orator but a hard-hitting...
He was interrupted almost at once by applause. He was, he cried, "more firmly convinced in the righteousness of the Democratic cause than . . . ever before in my entire life . . ." He was not a candidate. But as he went on, it was impossible not to conclude that he was making a...
Macartney's father, a strict Scots Covenanter minister, taught his children* a firm, old-fashioned set of religious beliefs. Young Clarence learned the fine points of oratory from an equally good source. As a University of Wisconsin undergraduate, he used to go down to the elder Bob La Toilette...