POLITICAL NOTES: We Love Him

The C.I.O. had a lavish welcome ready for its new political hero, Henry Wallace. He was housed in the six-room Skyway Suite of Chicago's Hotel Stevens—where Tom Dewey stayed last June. He was dined by C.I.O.'s nobility—Phil Murray, Sidney Hillman, R. J. Thomas, Jim Carey. And a key spot was saved for him on the C.I.O. convention program.

The shy, kindly man for whom all this was meant—the lame-duck Vice President of the U.S.—stepped off the train in Chicago's Grand Central Station, suitcase in hand. An aide hurried up after him. He, too,...