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...Next day, the President took off on a whirlwind speaking trip to Cleveland, Detroit, Louisville and Wilmington. By leaving Washington at 7:25 a.m. and returning at 7:14 p.m., the President traveled some 1,500 miles and averaged an incredible 125 m.p.h., including stops. Everywhere he went, his theme was Peace and Prosperity: "We won't go to war in order to get work." At his last stop, in Delaware, Ike had a suggestion to make: "If everybody here in this audience would go home this evening and start calling up-would call ten voters and ask them...
Back in Washington, Ike personally followed up on his Wilmington suggestion. Using a list of persons who had written letters to the White House, the President made ten long-distance calls and asked the recipients to start off the telephone chain reaction. The first person he talked to, Mrs. Frederick Saye, a Peoria cook, did not meet state residence requirements for voting-but she began dialing her telephone anyhow. A North Carolina man who received a presidential call said breathlessly: "I'll certainly do what the President asked me to do-if I live...
Second row: Egon R. Bodtker of Portland, Ore, and Weld North; E. F. Bowditch, Jr. of Cambridge, Mass. and Wigglesworth; Merom Brachman of Forth Worth, Tex, and Thayer North; David M. Busse of Wilmington, Del. and Straus South; Howard E. Chase of Maplewood, N.J. and Weld South; Richard T. Cooper of Geneva, Ill. and Holworthy Middle; E. Lawrence Currey of Omaha, Neb. and Wigglesworth; Richard W. Daly of Wellesley, Mass. and Matthews South...
...week. Republicans have one of their best chances to take a U.S. Senate seat away from the Democrats. The candidates: reedy-voiced incumbent Senator J. (for Joseph) Allen Frear Jr., 51, a sometime farmer, banker and small businessman, and hefty G.O.P. Representative Herbert B. (for Birchby) Warburton, 38, a Wilmington lawyer...
...Shaw's Saint Joan, starring Cinemactress Jean Arthur and directed by Harold (The Member of the Wedding) Clurman, played to capacity audiences in Washington's National Theatre last week. Despite its success, Saint Joan was not headed straight for Broadway. It had already played in Wilmington and would take a 28-week tour of 18 other U.S. cities before hitting Manhattan. Gamble though it is, Joan's tour is less unusual than the company that financed...