She loves to campaign

By Mary Alice Carhart

This story originally appeared October 14, 1960 in The Ledger-Star of Norfolk, Virginia.

"I love campaigning. I have all the fun and none of the work," Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge told reporters prior to her husband's address here.

"I don't have to make any of the speeches - Cabot does it so well," explained the 55-year-old long-legged blonde.

Instead Emily Lodge smilingly greets bystanders as she makes the campaign circuit with her vice presidential nominee husband.

For her brief and first visit to Norfolk Thursday she chose a salt and pepper wool suit with white jersey blouse. The only misfortune suffered was a lost buckle from her french heel shoes.

Contrary to previous stories published she confessed she does give interviews. ("I give them every day.")

A Boston debutante, she met her husband when just 18 and married him two years later.

The Lodges have two sons, George and Harry. George is assistant secretary of labor while Harry is a salesman with an engineering firm in Beverly, Mass.

The former has five children and the latter, three.

"My grandchildren are my main interest," the svelte politician's wife boasted.

"The eldest is a girl 10 years old and the youngest, a boy two and a half months.

An unexpected part of the Lodges' appearance here was the presentation of a miniature Norfolk mace to Mrs. Lodge by Mayor W. Fred Duckworth. In presenting it Mayor Duckworth annouced it was her first visit here and "We hope she will return."

Following her husband's speech, Mrs. Lodge scurried off the platform and toward the crowd remarking, "I'd better shake hands with these people."

And it was a most appreciative crowd she approached whose most frequent remark was "Such a young looking grandmother!"