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...people who cheer loudest when you succeed are those who throw pop bottles the hardest when you fail. . . . Loud cheers make heroes. Pop bottles make martyrs. ... I knew an old priest once. His hair was white, his face shone. ... I am listed as a famous home-runner, yet beside that obscure priest, who was so good and so wise, I never got to first base...
...June 27 after 23 days aloft they broke the official record of 553½ hr. set by Brothers John & Kenneth Hunter at Chicago five years ago, some 25,000 people jammed Meridian Municipal Airport to cheer them on. In carnival spirit, the crowd danced at the airport all night, whooped at the announcement that the field would henceforth be known as Key Airport. Ablaze with civic pride, the Chamber of Commerce promised the Brothers Key $100 for each & every day they stayed aloft after breaking the record, and the Junior Chamber of Commerce presented their children with Shetland ponies...
...Manchuria the Japanese regularly load trains with seeds, cinemas, drygoods, hardware and propagandists, dispatch them to the back districts for the edification of incredulous Chinese. In the U. S. railroad peddling has been largely confined to private cars in which crack executives tour the land, scatter cheer to underlings and big customers. Last autumn Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank led a long goodwill mission around the borders of the U. S. in a private car with his nephew Nelson Rockefeller as Exhibit A (TIME, Dec. 24). But not until last fortnight when Chicago's Marshall Field...
...Cheer for Conant...
This finished there was a cheer for President Conant and for the University. Conant replied that he felt it was true that he was a pretender because of his inexperience, but that he was glad to be fully installed. He refrained, however, from giving an inaugural address, and contented himself with saying his final farewells to the graduating class and wishing them the greatest success...