DEMOCRATS: Fight Talk

At Chicago's Blackstone Theater one evening last week, Adlai Stevenson appeared backstage to congratulate Actor Melvyn Douglas on his portrayal of the late Clarence Darrow in the "monkey trial" play, Inherit the Wind. Critic Stevenson had only one complaint about Douglas' performance. Chided he: "You didn't have to look straight at me when you delivered that line about William Jennings Bryan." The line: "I wonder how it feels to almost be President three times, with a skullful of undelivered inaugural speeches."

Later in the week Stevenson traveled east to Hartford, Conn., where a conclave of top...

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