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Striding down the Fair's main street, he passed the empty buildings of Germany and Jugoslavia. Both countries at the last minute decided to send no exhibits. A little farther on he stopped at the French building, to grin and shake hands with the exhibit's director. Edouard Soulier, vice president of the Chamber of Deputies' Foreign Affairs Committee...
...panel was the great grin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On the President's shoulder perched a vulture. In one hand the President held a fishing rod with a sucker on the line, in the other a bouquet of microphones. Mrs. Roosevelt stood beside him, her teeth and chin cruelly caricatured. The New Deal was represented by scattered playing cards?all deuces. Elliott Roosevelt and Anna Roosevelt Dall were seen tossing their respective spouses, portrayed as dolls, into a trash basket...
With a broad grin General Johnson was expressing his pleasure at the discovery that he was still wanted in Washington. He had just found it out, for he was emerging from his first White House conference with Franklin Roosevelt since they both returned from their vacations...
Bedded in a Manhattan hospital with a broken ankle in a plaster cast, Primo Carnera watched movies of the fight which lost him the heavyweight championship of the world to Max Baer. Cried Ex-Champion Carnera: "Look at me go down ... I fall. I fall again. Look at Baer grin, the big smart Alec." Then he wept...
...diplomas & handshakes were enough for Octogenarian Cutting. Another trustee, portly, erect, broad-mustached and 16 years his junior, stepped forward to take his place. The line of graduates surged up, rippled across the stage. The portly trustee pumped each well-scrubbed right hand, thrust a diploma into the left, grinned, murmured "Congratulations." Each presentation took four seconds. On & on they came - bakers from Brooklyn, mechanics from Manhattan, soda-jerkers from The Bronx, clerks from Jersey. Cooper Union is free and many students have fulltime jobs outside. Fifteen minutes passed and the Free Hand Drawing classes appeared. The portly trustee...