Night Truman lost in a Gallup and won in a walk

Mornings like these, when reader has a few precious hours advantage on the writer, you have to feel for Pat Maloney.

He was managing editor of the Chicago Tribune on the night in Nov 1948 when the presses rolled out the most famous headline in the paper’s 165-year history. ‘DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN’.

The headline on the paper that Truman would later hold triumphantly aloft as he boarded a train back to Washington, having secured another term in office.