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...leaders. When he finished, his wife, his three small sons and his brother Paul joined him on the stand; like a well rehearsed vaudeville act, they all sang When You Were Sweet Sixteen. The applause swelled, then seemed to roll right out of the park and up to a wan and waning moon as Henry Wallace appeared, riding in an open car, circling the outfield...
Back in Washington something had indeed turned up. But it was hardly reassuring. At C.I.O. headquarters a wan Phil Murray and P.A.C.'s beady-eyed boss, Jack Kroll, were holding a conference calculated to undo the soothing effects of Mr. Truman's vacation. They were not ready to make any public statement. But Murray and Kroll, so the Washington rumor ran, had met to devise some way by which Mr. Truman could be persuaded to withdraw as a candidate for re-election -and consider whom they could get to run on the Democratic ticket instead...
...city. Traffic had stopped. Fifth Avenue was as white and vacant as the frozen Yukon, side streets were choked by thousands of stalled cabs, busses and trucks. Parkways were dotted with white mounds, each of which marked an abandoned automobile. Broadway's enormous electric signs made only a wan glow in the gloom. The Queen Mary, and other liners which had canceled sailings, hugged North River piers with their decks heaped with snow...
...Charlie Coulter is out of the lineup with pneumonia until after Christmas. There, the schedule is the toughest in history: all the league standbys are back, and an imposing roster has been added for a vacation roadtrip. "We ought to beat Northwestern and Brown," Chase says with a wan smile...
...time, and that it was too late to find a substitute; that I understood his wanting to retire to Hyde Park to enjoy the freedom of private citizenship, but that I did not think that was good enough in the dangerous days that lay ahead. He looked wan and tired, and it hurt me to say what I had to say. ..." Roosevelt never told him he was going to appoint him Ambassador. A few days later Winant read the news in the papers...