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...first trip away from Hollywood in more than ten years, oldtime Cinemactress Marion Davies arrived in Richmond, Va. with her husband Horace Brown to meet his family. One of the points of interest was the First Precinct station, former headquarters for Brown when he pounded a beat on the Richmond force back in the early 1930's. Dressed in diamonds and a brand new, $15,000 mink coat (her old sable wrap, said Brown, was just too heavy "for my little pixie to carry around"), Marion went on a tourof the lockup. At the sight of some 30 smalltime...
...Oveta Gulp Hobby, editor and executive vice president of the Houston Post, head of the Women's Army Corps during World War II, who announced for Ike four months before the political conventions, published a "political primer" which was instrumental in getting pro-Eisenhower Texans into the G.O.P. precinct conventions last spring. During the campaign, she headed the national Democrats-for-Eisenhower movement...
...Will the minority vote swing away from the Democrats? One predominantly Jewish precinct in Philadelphia gave Stevenson a heavier lead than it gave Truman...
...Midwest, Ike swept across all the traditional political boundaries. The farmers of Ohio's Franklin township were swinging Republican by 3 to 1 ; a heavily labor precinct in Dayton split right down the middle: Ike 245, Stevenson 245. Ike's Ohio majority...
Fairchild makes a good, respectable impression, but lights no emotional fires. His biggest campaign asset is Wisconsin's Democratic Organizing Committee, which carried the state for Truman in 1948. A dedicated and well-organized group, the Committee can bring out the city precinct vote which might offset McCarthy's rural strength...