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threatened people and they threatened parsons, I'm sure. Some of them didn't come on account of threats. Some of them didn't come because they didn't like Al Smith. Anyhow, they didn't come.

Finally, they found a Mormon elder who would ask the blessing. I can see him to this day. He looked a little like that self portrait of Paul Cezanne - the famous one in the Phillips Gallery (Washington) - with the very round head, the black curly beard. That's how he looked. I remember noticing it as he came to be introduced to us in the little room backstage. I remember thinking, “My goodness, how much he looks like that Cezanne self portrait.” He had a big, very bald, domey head, with a black beard. He was not at all distinguished looking - quite the contrary, as a matter of fact.

Anyhow, with his coming we shook hands all around, they pulled the curtain back and we filed out onto the platform. We sat down where Harry told us. Harry had said to us just before we went out. “Now, girls, hold your horses. Don't show any fear.”

We said, “What should we be afraid of?”

He said, “They may begin to throw things.”

I said, “Why, what will they throw, Senator?”

He said, “Tomatoes. Eggs. Did you ever hear of that?”