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Show XhLPhillipr W WW 'WNUtantai ACCEPTANCE Morning i 1 Inspection of the house In which Wendell Willki was born, with special attention at-tention to exhibits Including: (a) Milk bottle broken by the Infant In-fant Willkie when he heard for the first time the mention of a name that sounded like "Roosevelt"; "Roose-velt"; (b) blackboard upon which he once drew a donkey and scribbled scrib-bled the words, "This is a turkey"; (c) faded Mother Goose book with page turned to a verse brought up to date as follows: Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard cup-board To get her poor doggie a bone; When she got there the cupboard was bare The New Deal had skinned It by phone. 2 Short talk by nursemaid who remembers distinctly that as a child In arms Willkie had the kind of personality per-sonality that made her give him a lollipop when the doctor ordered paregoric. 3 Reception by Mr. and Mrs. Frank McCarthy, present tenants of the old Willkie home, marked by frequent exclamations by both, "If we'd ever had an idea of this we'd never have taken the place!" 4 Address by the mayor of El-wood: El-wood: "Home Town Boy Makes Good." 5 Sight-seeing tour through business busi-ness area, with special attention to the cobbler's shop where Wilikie's shoes were repaired, and the barbershop bar-bershop where he was first shaved and In which the barber is still trying to argue him into getting his hair cut some day. Review of places featuring Wendell Willkie Hamburgers, Hambur-gers, Wendell Willkie Barbecue Lunch, Wendell Willkie Haberdashery, Haberdash-ery, and the "Wendell Willkie Punch Positively One to a Customer." Noon to 2 p. ni.: Band concert on the Elwood Green. Selections: "Banks of the Wabash," Wa-bash," "Inquisitions of the Potomac," Poto-mac," "I'm on My Way," "Throw 'Em Down McClusky," "Jusrt a Little Lit-tle White House Built for Two." 2 p. m.: Athletic Events at Callaway park. Greased Pole Climb: Bob Taft. Escaping From Locked Trunk Demonstration: Mr. Willkie. Throwing the 100 Pound Racket: Thomas Dewey. Boxing Rodeo: Mr. Frank Gannett Gan-nett vs. the whole New Deal. Sack Race: Original Willkie for President men vs. alternates. Wrestling Events: Charlie Mc-Nary Mc-Nary vs. Past Performances; Mr. Willkie vs. the field. 3 p. in.: Parade. Section 1 Republicans Who Had Just About Given Up Hope. Section 2 Republicans Who Hatf Definitely Given Up Hope. Section 3 Battle-scarred Tories. Section 4 Businessmen's Clubs of America (on stretchers). I Section 5 Budget Balancers (in ! ambulances). j Section 6 Thrift Clubs (on ' crutches). i Section 7 Efficiency Experts (by ! proxy). ! Section 8 Brass bands playing the theme song, "Heaven Help the Poor I Businessman; the New Deal Never ! Will." 4 p. m.: Mr. Willkie accepts the nomination nomina-tion at Elwood high school while his school teachers shake their head and whisper, "You could kuock us over with a feather." 5 to 8: Dancing, cold snacks and arguments argu-ments over the Gallup poll. SUMMER PORTRAIT Hills and dales And cars with banners Full of folks ' With rotten manners. Add similes: As ironic as the idea of Pierre Laval putting other French leaders on trial for making mistakes. mis-takes. Adolf Hitler has sent to Mussolini as a gift a train of three armored cars equipped with 16 anti-aircraft guns in the hope "that it may accompany ac-company you in the future to protect your life." This would indicate that the reaction to those balcony speeches isn't what it used to be. Out of 900,000 tulip bulbs planted by the city of New York in a special spe-cial Riverside drive garden 600.000 tailed to come up. After that we don't feel so futile about the da;Todil bed. |