As Adlai Stevenson's motorcade rolled into Democratic Baltimore last week, housewives craned out of open windows to catch sight of the first Democratic presidential candidate to visit their city since 1932. Through the small street-corner crowds gathered along Stevenson's route rippled the question "Which one is he?" It was a question which haunted the Stevenson party. In the West, crowds had sometimes given their cheers to Campaign Manager Wilson Wyatt, mistaking him for Stevenson, to whom he bears a slight resemblance.
At Baltimore's Fifth Regiment Armory, Illinois' governor strained the enthusiasm of a strongly Democratic crowd with a serious discussion of inflation....
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