Word: talkathon
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...What Wisconsinite's victory over a "talkathon" underlined the issue of Communists in the Government...
...longer call him squash-shaped, says Di Salle, because he has lost 30 Ibs.). Di Salle is not well known in his home state, despite his three years as mayor of Toledo and his 14 months as U.S. price administrator in Washington. Di Salle is using the talkathon, the marathon radio question-answering technique, which has been remarkably effective in some states and not so effective in others. There is a wide difference in the organization support the two men have. When Di Salle held a press conference in Columbus recently, Democratic state headquarters didn't even know where...
...worried about the attention that his Republican opponent, 50-year-old Leonard Schmitt, was winning with his talkathon campaign. Seated on a raised platform in Milwaukee's municipal auditorium last week, Schmitt rattled out answers over radio & TV to questions which were fired at him from the audience and from a battery of twelve telephones in the hall. The questions-5,000 of them -continued for 26 hours straight. Many Wisconsin voters do not consider Schmitt's talkathon a mere publicity stunt. He goes at it in a quiet, thoughtful way, gives McCarthy credit where credit...
...postcard campaigns to the voters. Schmitt may benefit from Wisconsin's primary laws, which permit residents to vote in either party's primary. Although Democrats have a senatorial primary race of their own, between Lawyer Henry Reuss and former State Attorney General Thomas Fairchild, Schmitt's talkathon has attracted so much attention that many Democrats may move into the Republican primary, just for the chance of voting against Senator...