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Banks, Barbershops, Etc. Burly, thunder-voiced George Bender, 60, is perfectly frank about the length and breadth of his campaign. "I never started," he says, "and I never stop. Since his 1954 election to complete the unexpired term of his idol, Robert A. Taft, Bender has worked hard to live down his reputation as the bell ringing buffoon at the 1952 Republican National Convention. He has built up a record as a solid pro-Eisenhower Senator, and few Republicans have a better right to call upon Ike for help. Most observers agree that although he has cut deeply into...
Louis XV also dies. After him the deluge-mob shouts, bloodthirsty gutter songs, the Marseillaise. The kettledrummers in the orchestra knock themselves out producing revolutionary thunder. And then the quieter waltzes of Citizen-King Louis Philippe, a brief reprise of glory under Napoleon the Third, World War I -La Madelon, Tipperary, Over There. Three majestic, mournful booms sound from the percussion section; at each one, the lights fade, and at last the palace is plunged once more into darkness...
...must whenever and wherever Democrats gather, the civil-rights issue hung heavily over Chicago last week. But although the thunder rumbled and dark clouds gathered along the horizon, the lightning did no serious damage, at least none up to convention's eve. In the week before the Democratic National Convention began, there were simply too many lightning rods around to divert...
...most effective lightning rod of them all turned out to be a Southerner: Mississippi's Governor James Plemon Coleman. Husky, affable Governor Coleman, who learned how to handle extremists in his home state, kept his head when the thunder began to rumble at Chicago. Under his steadying hand, Platform Committee Southerners sat silent, although glum, through a parade of outspokenly civil-righteous witnesses, e.g., A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who demanded that "the Democratic Party must declare that it is not in favor of thwarting a decision of the Supreme Court...
Then McCormack's hand-picked moderates on the subcommittee retired to hammer out the plank. No one familiar with the unpredictable Democrats was willing to guess what shape it would take. But one thing was certain: civil-rights thunder was going to continue to mutter over the Democrats for a long time to come...