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The Babbler Volume 48 (1968-1969), Lipscomb University, Kenny Barfield, Lee Maddux, Ken Slater, Gerald Jerkins

The Babbler (Student Newspaper)

David Lipscomb College's (now Lipscomb University) The Babbler student newspaper volume 48, which ran from October 1968–August 1969. It had 25 issues.

The Spinster (1968), Hollins College

The Spinster

Yearbook of Hollins College (later University)

The Truman Election: Was 1968 A Repeat?, Cloene Biggs

Honors Theses

As election day in 1948 drew nearer, political pollsters, pros and amateurs united in predicting victory for Thomas E. Dewey. Only underdog candidate President Truman and, as it turned out, the American electorate disagreed with this consensus.

At the end of 1947 Truman was considered certain for renomination by his party, and the Gallup Poll showed that he would easily defeat either of the two leading Republicans--Governor Dewey and Senator Taft. A get-tough policy with Russia had pushed up his popularity--the Marshall Plan, his advocacy of government action to curb high prices, his confrontation with labor leader John L. Lewis …