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Philadelphia's Mayor Mackey handed him a ball with which to start the game. Before an array of news cameramen he twice wound up to make the toss, twice held the pose. But he never threw out the ball. The game had already been started...
...quite remarkably its own of coming before the public eye. In witness whereof Boston is at this very moment reverberating to the martial (albeit slightly unsteady and irregular) tramp of feet, the blat of tubas, the rattle of canes (in Heu of musketry) and the clash of an indescribable array of colors. Her citizenry has the opportunity of feasting its eyes upon an unparalleled collection of 100 per cent Americans and hats. Admittedly not as many of these ardent militarists have witnessed the firing of a rifle with intent to kill as one might at first be led to suppose...
Present-day college educators have provided the student with a pleasant array of physical comforts, have built for him a cloister and a hearth, have provided him with unprecedented athletic facilities. Now they only have to ask that he refuse to stifle. With respect to creating a zest for knowledge and, above all, a zest for life, they remain with their eighteenth century predecessors, waiting for the horse to drink of the living water...
...solemnly and well, the coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra. Elmer, too, got along well with royalty. Armed with a special permit from the Tsar he penetrated the secrecies of Peter and Paul fortress and-unheard of!-photographed the tombs of the Tsar's imperial ancestors. Thereafter an array of grand dukes and even His Holiness the Metropolitan (head of the Russian Orthodox church) could hardly wait to sit for Brother Elmer. Elmer repeated the performance in Sweden, won from King Oscar praise that paved his way through all Scandinavia. Henrik Ibsen, ill and unable to walk, was gladly...
...over Russia one day last week, Communist manifestants paraded the streets in bellicose array, displaying gas masks, small arms, sundry war materiel. Overhead, Red planes swung across the sky, on land there were military maneuvers, at sea Red warships wallowed in sham battle. Paradoxically, the parading crowds carried banners not praising war but decrying it; the Red planes dove, not to loose steel and nitroglycerine eggs, but to dump fluttering leaves of peace propaganda. The occasion: International Anti-War Day, held on the 16th anniversary of mobilization for the World War (Aug. 1). At Moscow the climax...