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Privately all agents agree London will be so jam-squeezed that even Ambassadors in Government cars will have to arise at dawn before the Coronation and reach the Abbey by 7 a. m. at the latest. Millions of Britons will stand, sit, slump and sleep on curbstones not only the whole previous night but in all probability the night before that. Ten thousand tourists will sleep in ships on the Thames...
...handful of friends and Preacher Johnson had to break the news to the bride's mother. Thinking of the 500 engraved invitations, the church decorations, the reception at her home, Mother Prince fainted. When she revived, she discussed the matter with Preacher Johnson until near dawn...
Five-score desperate men crouched inside the Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. plant in North Chicago one dawn last week as up to the gates marched a motley army of 125 other desperate men armed with guns, nightsticks, baseball bats, tear gas bombs, battering rams. The besieging army was the Law-Sheriff Lawrence C. Doolittle of Lake County, Ill., with policemen and deputies...
Shortly after dawn on Sunday in Manila, 500,000 Catholics on the Luneta attended mass, celebrated by Legate Dougherty who appeared as a choir sang Ecce Sacerdos Magnus (Behold the Great Priest), In the afternoon, soldiers, prelates, priests, government officials, members of the Philippines National Assembly and men, women and children formed in a long liturgical procession which took five hours to wind up on the Luneta, where Cardinal Dougherty held aloft a Sacred Host in Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. To these joyful Catholics then came, through loudspeakers, the voice of the Holy Father. On his divan...
...that other people sell things, but they imagine that the factory people are dirty and ignorant and that the salesmen are back-slapping parasites whose function is to force their customers to buy things they neither need nor want. The unfortunate clerk who pores over his account books from dawn to dusk is in a blind alley and the slave of his work. "These", says the senior, "are not the things I want to do; surely somewhere in the business world is a job for a college man, perhaps a job I never heard of, perhaps in 'office work...