By last week, U. S. interest in the campaign had taken a noticeable trend away from the five-dollar words of high argument and seemed to be heading toward the two-cent simplicities of Zowie! and Wham! (TIME, Oct. 14). For the first time, a public debater made a direct hit on Wendell Willkie, with a tomato. Many a verbal tomato, many an ancient egg, whizzed through the air.
Tomatoes & Eggs. While Wendell Willkie stormed through New England, hoarsely lambasting "The Third Term Candidate" and the New Deal, other G. O. P. stalwarts marched up &...
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