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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic campaign enters its final weeks, Humphrey has a superabundance of delegate votes but a surprising lack of popular support. Robert Kennedy would have been mobbed in Hough; Humphrey was scarcely noticed. Eugene McCarthy attracts the young and active; Humphrey's audiences tend to be middle-aged and lethargic. The only ones who greet the Democratic front runner with anything like real friendliness and enthusiasm are Democratic politicians...
...Americans tend to make rather heavier weather of it. Take Marylou Whitney, whose husband Sonny (Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney to you) was a principal backer of Pan American World Airways, Gone With the Wind and enough other ventures to qualify him as a one-man conglomerate. She has five children and five establishments in Lexington, Ky., Saratoga, Manhattan, Manitoba, Canada, and 100,000 acres of the Adirondacks. So Marylou and her two secretaries (one in New York and one in Kentucky) spend a lot of time in a welter of lists, files and details. She likes to dash off notes...
...outside. He is always conscious of his audience--even when the audience is just himself. He undergoes emotions, but can control and channel them as he sees fit. Shakespeare has made Richard the purveyor of artificial and ear-tickling poetry, full of wonderful imagery. In fact, Richard's speeches tend to be arias and ariosos. Never was Shakespeare more intent on creating verbal music (and indeed it is no accident that, except for King John, Richard II is his only play without a single line of prose...
...Lost," and Shaw's "Androcles and the Lion," which will be reviewed in subsequent issues. The drive to the picturesque grounds on the Housatonic River takes about two and a half hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike, Interstate 91, and the Connecticut Turnpike to Exit 32 or 31. Performances tend to begin promptly at 2:30 and 8:30 in the air-conditioned Festival Theatre. There are free facilities for picnickers on the premises...
Having claimed an arsenal of 1,811 delegate votes - 499 more than he needs to capture the Democratic presidential nomination in August - Hubert Humphrey might understandably have been content to tend to his Washington chores or else to rusticate back home in Waverly, Minn. Instead, acting for all the world like a ravenous underdog, the Vice President scrambled through a grueling Midwestern campaign tour...