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Watch out folks, the Bounding One, the Bod, the Limey, the Mighty Mite, the Sweet Kraut, the Duck, the Stoneham Scrapper, the Heartbreak Kid, Vaya Con and Smiley...
Ellen "the Heartbreak kid" Gallagher has been running all summer and should be in good shape as should Martha "the Stoneham Scrapper" Clabby and Becky "Smiley" Rogers...
Watch out folks, the Bounding One, the Bod, the Limey, the Mighty Mite, the Sweet Kraut, the Duck, the Stoneham Scrapper, the Heartbreak Kid, Vaya Con and Smiley...
Ellen "the Heartbreak kid" Gallagher has been running all summer and should be in good shape as should Martha "the Stoneham Scrapper" Clabby and Becky "Smiley" Rogers...
Barber knows how to start an argument. In an election of conscience, was Goldwater really any less combative than Truman in a year of conflict? Was Nixon the conciliator in 1968 all that different from Nixon the scrapper a mere four years later? Barber's categories are considerably too neat, but his basic point deserves attention: an election depends as much on the mood of the time as it does on the qualities of the successful candidate. Tom Dewey, Barber argues, came on too strong in 1944, when the public yearned for unity, but was too weak...