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Observers in this week-long rehearsal were never more than 15 seconds away from a telephone. The cry "Army, flash," immediately cleared a line to one of the four Information Centers (Boston, Manhattan, Philadelphia, Norfolk). Last week in Manhattan's center, supposedly the best-equipped in the world, 60 Army officers, 100 enlisted men and 600 women volunteers were kept hopping...
Torches, songs, cheers, bandsmen, and Carl Poscosolido, star of the 1932 game which saw the Crimson flash in triumph over the pea color for the last time, will be the feature attractions of the evening, but just being there will be thrill enough...
Events still might make the choice unnecessary. From Rio de Janeiro came a radio flash: the I. C. White, 7,052-ton American-owned Panama-registered tanker, had been torpedoed and sunk on Sept. 27 in the South Atlantic, with a loss of four of her 38 men. This was the eighth U.S.-owned ship sunk in World...
...long bicycle rides over country roads speckled with red and yellow leaves, and the tang of wood-smoke in the wind. And then there was the sharp outline of a snowy peak against the blue winter sky, the green of pines along the Sherburne trail, and the bright flash of skiers as they hissed through the new powder snow. And then when spring came there was canoeing down the swollen New England rivers, through the rushing white water of the spring freshets...
...soft upsweep wave over the ears that fetched applause from newshens. The Duke, wrote the male press, looked 20 years younger than his 47. The Duchess, while not photogenic, wrote the feminine press, was much more attractive than her 45. The scurrying, roaring crowds saw little but a flash of a bareheaded, blond little man in a grey suit getting in & out of cars, saw only the waved hand of Wallis Windsor of Baltimore, who almost became Queen of England...