Oberlin College - Hi-O-Hi Yearbook (Oberlin, OH)

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BEFORE THE MOCK CONVENTION . The Big Top measured two hundred feet by eighty feet, and was twenty- five feet high. On the rostrum at the north center were seated convention officials, representatives of the press, convention stenographers, and broad- casting officials with microphones. Delegates occupied the center of the tent . . . lOOl of them. Bleach- ers around the end held l8OO visiting high school students, alumni, general public . . . and cats and dogs. BORAHl Vote for Landon' Vote for Knox! . . . Vandenberg is the Man' Everyday after chapel for three weeks before the convention was in session political orators accompanied by booming bands shouted into portable mikes But no one paraded for Mr Winant, the man Oberlin was to nomi-

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Oberlin alumni came to the rescue at the last minute. Students thought their parade would be elephantless, but the alumni, upon the sug- gestion of Bob Stephan, radio editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, paid sixty dollars to the Cleveland Artificial Flower Company for the use of a mechanical elephant, which had appeared in a floor show in Cleveland's May- fair Casino. Evelyn Moulton, with help from Electrician Harvey, mounted the paper mache beast, and led the parade. lRGlNlAl VPf0f'f lll ,ZQMIMM J. I-k 4at'Q ERE ling 1 Bathing beauties, Popeye's Jeep, William Randolph Wurst, mountaineer dancers and fiddlers the Boston Tea Party, Simon Legree, Abraham Lincoln, Liberty, several bulls a dog team, cow boys and cow girls, hula-hula dancers, two-and three seater bikes, ducks, chickens made up a mile-long parade.