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Sound equipment was plugged in; flash light bulbs exploded; in painful embarrassment the new Justice went through a little act for the cameramen. He fumbled when he picked up a pencil; his assistant standing behind him reached out on one side for a piece of paper while Mr. Murphy held it out in the other direction; Mr. Murphy's voice was almost inaudible as he explained that he was sad at leaving the Attorney-Generalship, praised his successor, and said of the Jackson Day dinner: "Incidentally, I'm not supposed to talk about politics." In a few minutes...
...English-speaking world is essentially simple. "We are in the worst period of history the world has known," he says, "and the job is to keep explaining why, why, why without being a Jeremiah." So Swing tells what's what simply, calmly, right, with no flash-flashes, no calamitous crescendos, no special hallmark of his own except a level, almost hushed "Good night...
What Jimmy Bowen watched through his glasses and told about, flash by flash, for the next 13 minutes filled everyone's front pages next day-"The ship is moving now, rolling from side to side. There goes another explosion! The after turret has gone up. . . . She is going down, going down by the stern. . . . Flames are still shooting up into the air. . . . The boys evidently are going to make a good job of it, and leave nothing but the pieces. . . . She is going down still. The bow is under. . . . The only thing showing now is her superstructure, the stack...
Just as at opening of opera or cinema, news photographers whanged away to the giddy glare of flash bulbs. They caught tycoonery (see cuts), failed only to re-record the serious things which the tycoons had come for. During their sessions they...
...fellows tug around with each other on a big black mat in seemingly strange fashion every afternoon, but there's method in their madness because all are under the watchful eye of Pat Orr Johnson, youthful Varsity and Freshman wrestling coach. And right now Pat has a right to flash his broadest smile in years, because as soon as his Varsity matment can shake off a few minor early-season injuries, they have a good chance to develop into one of the most powerful and best-balanced squads he has ever had here...