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...hustings, Nehru seemed far from the blinkers and the abstruse neutralism of New Delhi: he was the magnetic Panditji again, back among the people he had helped Gandhi lead to independence. He threw garlands, and jumped from his car to hug the children. He shinnied up a Welcome arch so that one excited crowd could see him. He leaped a wire barricade to rescue a child in danger of being trampled. He joshed Communists who had called him "potbellied." That, said Panditji., was "vulgar." His impact was such that the Communists soon called off their attacks for the duration...
After pointing this out, Hearst's Daily Mirror, the News's arch rival (whose circulation has slipped as much), needled the News some more, saying: "They also said they originate and others only imitate . . . Heck, we remember last summer when the Mirror started the great 'Lucky Buck' game that set the city and the nation on its ear . . . Weeks went by. Our friends ignored it. Then we heard [the News was] holding meetings . . . All those brains! All that money! What were they going to come up with? Then came B-day. Our friends brought forth something...
...faculty is now divided into the departments of Architecture, headed by Dean Sert, and City Planning and Architecture, headed by newly-appointed Roginald R. Isaacs, M. Arch, '39. Formerly, the latter department consisted of the two separate groups of City Planning and of Landscape Architecture. A third affiliated group, the Architectural Sciences department in the College, remains under the chairmanship of Norman T. Newton, associate professor of Landscape Architecture...
...make a fine model for all sprites, land, air or sca-borne. When she makes her third act entrance in several feet of fish net, some strategic sea weed and perhaps a trifling bathing suit, she is the most charming picture I've ever seen surrounded by a proscenium arch. She is magnificent...
Before them stood a radio receiver. Spain's arch-conservative Pedro Cardinal Segura had assembled his council to pass judgment on Father Venancio Marcos of the Oblate Fathers of Mary Immaculate, the "radio priest" who in a few years had built up from a handful of listeners on a single private station to a series of half-hour broadcasts over a twelve-station national network, with an audience of more than 5,000,000. From the loudspeaker came Father Marcos' cheerful voice in one of his weekly "Chats on Religious Orientation...