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Show Wives of Candidates Analyzed by Writer The seven wives of America's possible presidential candidates in 1948 are very different in temperament and although no man will be nominated because of his wife, it's interesting to know what the First Lady would be like in each case. Pat Lochridge, of the Women's Home Companion staff, went around the country interviewing interview-ing them and came out with neat little thumb-nail sketches of each. Mrs. Truman, already in the White House, has settled nicely into her job as First Lady and wouldn't mind staying there. Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey is one of the most retiring of the seven wives. She's pretty, polite and always smartly dressed dres-sed but she likes privacy, can't make a speech even when she's deeply touched by an occasion and is frank to admit that she wishes her husband were just practicing law so her family could have a normal private life. Mrs. Robert A. Taft, on the other hand, is an excellent speaker, and campaigns for her husband all the time. She told Miss Lochridge, "Campaigning is better than sitting at home alone." At a Lincoln Day dinner in Columbus, Ohio, for instance, she made a speech. "And after she finished," one listener said, none of us could tell the difference differ-ence between Abe -Lincoln and Bob Taft." Mrs. Taft is not stylish, styl-ish, she's too busy to pay much attention to her clothes. After 20 years in Washington. Mrs. Arthur Vandenberg, has taken over the social duties that would fall to the Vice-President's Lady if we had a Vice-President. Besides Be-sides that she takes care of all her husband's personal correspondence, corres-pondence, makes appointments for him and is generally his super-confidential secretary and valet. She even buys his suits! But she has no keen desire to be mistress of the White House. Mrs. Vandenberg, tall, handsome and in her early sixties, is also an extra special good cook and she can make conversation any |