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Ever since he broke with Franklin Roosevelt, Lewis has lost prestige in his C. I. O. One after another of his union leaders has defied him. He has sniped at the Hillman committee. At odds with his own followers, he sulked in his tent...
...told the story of Wendell Willkie, who had been born 48 years ago to a lawyer mother and a lawyer father in Elwood, Ind., now wanted to be President. This Willkie boy had worked as a harvest hand in Minnesota, in the oil fields of Texas, had run a tent hotel in a Colorado boom town, worked as a migrant laborer in California. He had gone to Indiana University, been admitted to the bar, married pretty Edith Wilk, an Indiana girl. He had gone to war in France. He had returned to practice law, become the head of billion-dollar...
...Again. That night the French peace delegates were driven 52 miles southwest to Paris, through streets that were deserted after the 9 o'clock curfew, to a hotel where they slept fitfully. Next morning they returned to their tent in the forest clearing. General Keitel turned over the dining car to them, where, with five secretaries, they went over the terms article by article. Article by article they discussed them with Bordeaux from the tent. Article by article they tried to get concessions from General Keitel, who was courteous but firm. Late in the afternoon of the second...
Last week, 142,000 fans-having amused themselves outside the grounds at tent shows, Ferris wheels, roller-skating rinks and shooting galleries-poured through the Speedway gates. They arrived on foot, in cars, trucks and trailers. Few knew or cared that the best qualifying time for this year's race was 127 m.p.h., that only one of the 33 competing cars was powered with more than eight cylinders, that this year's mechanical emphasis was on new methods of supercharging, that six foreign cars were entered, and, for the first time in a decade, two foreign drivers: South...
...clipped green lawn a pavilion was staked up. In the tent shade a liveried staff arranged little tea sandwiches, plates of cookies, piles of paper napkins; twisted up scoops of ice cream (strawberry, chocolate); dipped tiny mugs of sweet, nonalcoholic punch. In redlined blue capes moved Red Cross nurses; the Red Cross ladies fussed with plates and spoons. Near, but tactfully hidden, waited a khaki colored Army ambulance. Men with 22-year-old wounds must not be overexcited, must not overdo-Trailed by uniformed aides strode Eleanor Roosevelt, summery in a long, pale blue dress, a white hat, to meet...