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...Know-Nothings," who carried six states in 1854, captured 22% of the popular vote in 1856 for Millard Fillmore). In 1844, the anti-slavery Liberty Party, with a piddling 62,300 votes, drew enough Whig support in New York to swing the state and the presidency to Democrat James Polk. Four years later, the Free Soil Party did the same thing for Whig Zachary Taylor...
...problem-not passengers. Of the fleet of seven new cruise ships which the Navy took over during the war, the Government-controlled but privately operated line has so far gotten back only two: the President Monroe, which will sail on the first postwar pleasure cruise, and the President Polk, which will sail on May 2. Each has accommodations-all first class-for only 98 passengers. So tickets are being rationed to one person or one couple from each state per ship...
...Thanked Arkansas' Polk County Possum Club for sending him its prize possum. (The club had also sent its ugliest, scrawniest possum to John L. Lewis...
...late (until 8 o'clock one morning). He had his picture taken while giving a playful spank to moppet Mike Moffet. Back at his desk he swiftly cleaned up the accumulation of routine. One of his first decisions: to try to add Nashville, Tenn., and its James K. Polk sesquicentennial celebration on Nov. 6 to his North Carolina-Georgia trip...
...matter of fact, your wide range of knowledge and interests has had us hopping to keep ahead of your queries -like these: "Can you tell me what former President's wife was referred to as 'Lemonade Lucy'?" (Ans.: Mrs. James K. Polk) . . . "Where can I get the only two recordings made by Olga Alvino?" (Ans.: They're on one disk, Victor 22313, which is no longer in circulation-so you have to prowl among the second-hand music shops.) . . . "What size is a French 42½ woman's shoe...