On its cover, the Saturday Evening Post usually runs paintings which depict imaginary characters in some folksy, whimsical or appealing phase of daily U.S. life. This week its readers got a start. The Post's cover was in the tradition in one respect: it was painted by Norman Rockwell, the artist who has done more Post covers than anybody else. But the cover was a portrait of a real person: Dwight David Eisenhower. Announced the pro-Eisenhower Post: it was the first time in the Post's 224-year history that it had devoted its whole cover to a picture of a presidential candidate.
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