Along Philadelphia's bunting-bedecked downtown streets this week, "Welcome" signs blossomed in bar windows and store fronts. At Republican National Committee headquarters in the Bellevue-Stratford hotel, party-workers checked over lists of page-boys, sergeants-at-arms, ushers and doorkeepers for the great National Convention. Candidates' headquarters came to life. Crowded hotel lobbies buzzed with the chitchat and greetings of guests, politicians, camp followers and swarming newsmen.
The whole city, somnolent since the great Willkie push in 1940, throbbed with excitement. Workmen put finishing touches on the $500,000 refurbishing of Convention Hall. Five shapely models, employed by a local restaurateur, patrolled such busy intersections as...
