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Those teeth and that lanky Viking countenance weren't enough. On the stump the son of the onetime heavyweight champion of the world. Gene Tunney, came across wooden, a" fugitive from a high school rhetoric class, arms shooting out stiffly, phrases as self-conscious as the morning after. Keeping his eye on November, not wanting to alienate anyone, Tunney tried to keep it moderate, walk that middle line. Only that's where the ennui...
...played right into his strategy, falling in line so neatly that a Faust might have bargained his soul for them. As the campaign hit the homestretch and the kids flocked to Brown's camp, out ringing doorbells, mailing flyers, answering phones-they couldn't do enough-Tunney worried, and for the first time Brown seemed to be for real. By mid-May Brown was three points ahead in the public opinion polls. Brown could win-if. No one knew just what it took, but there was no question that Tunney had to do something. He did, all right...
...campaign got dirty. Tunney accused Brown-falsely-of advocating violence. He said that Brown was too liberal, some kind of kook who had no business eying one of those plush, prestigious hundred seats majestically fanned out under the Capitol dome. And Brown got mad too. He lashed out at Tunney, saying that he was "acting like a poor little rich boy." And then this enigma, this seemingly phlegmatic, hard man who barely gave a damn, melted and publicly apologized. "I shouldn't have said it," moaned Brown...
With Brown staying on the war issue. Tunney, too, joined the chorus, amplifying his earlier antiwar stand, making it the main theme of his homestretch spiel. "Why do I want to be a United States Senator?" intoned one of Tunney's final-days TV spots. "Because I want to help end the senseless killing in Southeast Asia." Most of Tunney's money went into TV, it seemed, because in the last few weeks he was all over the tube. It was enough to swing it. and though Tunney still seemed stiff and ill at ease up there before...
Still, it was close enough that the vote took all night, and it wasn't until late the next morning that Tunney wrapped it up for sure. George Brown held a post mortem press conference, and somebody asked him what he would do after his term in Congress is over. A shrug, a lift of the eyebrows: "I haven't thought about that." Fifty years old. out of a job-and he shrugs. That's George Brown...