Whither Willkie

Big, shaggy Wendell Willkie, the man who walks like a bear, was caught last week in a crushing bear trap. The springs and teeth had been fashioned out of his own party's machinery. He had fallen into it through his own stubborn disregard for danger signs. The result was that Wendell Willkie. while making his greatest impact on public life, was in jeopardy of being immobilized as a public figure.

In New York. Governor-elect Thomas E. Dewey. a longtime Willkie enemy, had read himself out of the 1944 Presidential race. Ohio's Senator Robert...

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