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...Bone philosophy was formed by a lifetime of fighting the interests, only lately has begun to pay political dividends. His father was a disabled Civil War veteran who married his mother after her first husband had been killed at Gettysburg...
Hellzapoppln (produced by Olsen & Johnson) is a cross between a fire in a lunatic asylum and the third clay at Gettysburg. Billed as a "screamlined revue," it roars into action with bullets, bombs and sounds of heavy artillery backstage. Radios blare, sound films boom, gorillas growl, vendors hawk tickets for rival shows, people race across the stage, plunge down the aisles, dive among the audience, ride horseback in boxes...
...mates defeated the Elis at Soldiers Field. The Westinghouse Company has sunk a time Capsule containing representative evidence of our contemporary culture 50 feet under the New York World's Fair grounds, and its contents include pictures of Jessie Owens at the Olympics. Howard Hughes' return, President Roosevelt at Gettysburg, and the Harvard-Yale grid contest...
...Dedicating an "eternal flame" (natural gas) at Gettysburg, on the 75th anniversary of the battle (see p. 10) was the President's July 4 weekend assignment. As every President speaking there inevitably must do, he sought to apply Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to the present state of the Union. Using 644 words to Lincoln's 266, Franklin Roosevelt pictured the people's Government threatened by unnamed enemies: ". . .When a challenge to constituted government is thrown down, the people must in self-defense take it up. . . . The fight must be fought through to a decision...
...holding a joint reunion. They might have done so but for oldsters who were Billy-be-damned if they would march under 1) The Stars & Stripes, or 2) The Stars & Bars. When Blues and Grays tried it 25 years ago, at the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, cussing and fisticuffing discouraged subsequent attempts. This year, the U. S. Government stepped in with a healing offer of free transportation. So last week G. A. R. and U. C. V. tried again at Gettysburg. This time they got on beautifully, for the men were exceedingly...