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Solid Senders in Chicago. When traffic lights in Chicago's Loop flash red Saturday night, cars often line up for a solid block. At the Sherman Hotel, customers stand eight deep at the long Celtic Bar; downstairs in the Panther Room, where a normal New Year's crowd is 1,100, nearly 2,500 swing-loving youngsters cramp in to hear the solid-sending of Glenn Miller's band...
...colonel only nine months ago, 51-year-old, Texas-born "Ike" Eisenhower is no flash in the pan. Since he left West Point in 1915 he has been pushing along. Made a lieutenant colonel in 1918, he was dropped back to a captaincy after the war. The big chance came when he went to the Philippines as Douglas MacArthur's assistant in 1935. The reputation he made there and in the 1941 Louisiana maneuvers (as Chief of Staff of the Third Army) carried him to Washington, where he soon became head of the vital Operations Division of the General...
...certain June night cannot be told. But the people of a small New England town (pop. less than 4,000) can guess. About 11 p.m., when the fog cleared and the stars came out, Frank Aresta, a policeman (by day, a grocer) on dimout duty, saw a flash followed by low, rolling thunder, then another and another. Said he to Carpenter James Thomas: "Storm, hell-that's shootin'." He telephoned the Coast Guard station. Soon a plane roared...
...expand their tightened arteries when an attack starts, victims of angina carry with them tiny pills (containing from 0.0003 to 0.0006 of a gram) of nitroglycerin. These work in a flash, but their effect does not last long...
Leaving Houghton by the front door, the party rounded the steps of Windener, which had been cleared of students, to find over 2000 cheering and clapping undergraduates. In a blaze of flash bulbs and grinding movie cameras Prado, still acknowledging the cheers with his hat, was pulled away in the official limousines as a motorcycle escort cleared a path...