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...from all directions; 1,900 U. S. flags hoisted by the city of Philadelphia; a reading clerk, tuned up for the hurly-burly by practicing 30 minutes daily in a soundproof garage, reading Elaine's oration on Garfield; Boss Joe Pew saying, "I am for Governor James until hell freezes over or until we reach the 252nd ballot" - interpreted as meaning that he had switched to Willkie, Dewey, or Taft; Candidate Taft three hours late for his first press conference (Was he making a deal? Had he simply overslept?); Candidate Dewey denying that any deal would be made...
...Paris. There he and the woman he loves continued the life they had led since they moved to France three years ago, building their days around the little problems of whom they might invite for tea and dinner. "The Duchess," observed a Chicago Tribune fashion writer just as all hell broke loose in Flanders, "has compiled a spring wardrobe that is composed of about 20 major ensemble units which, when divided, would make four times that many single garments. . . . It's easy to see that she has been a real help to the French fashion industries...
Trend. Says Wendell Willkie of his boom: "I would like to think it means I'm a hell of a fellow . . . but I think it means ... I represent a trend, or am ahead of a trend." Groping to define that trend last week, commentators called it a sign of impatience with politicians, an end to popular suspicion of businessmen as such, a recognition of the need for industrial leadership in a crisis. Deepest was the realization that the Republican convention would meet in the hour of Hitler's greatest triumph and democracy's greatest defeat. Wrote Columnist...
...Sailed to England in a hell of bombs and shells...
...Riviera with his delicious mother, Beauty Budd, nee Mabel Blackless. A symbolic opening scene shows young Lanny dancing in a Dalcroze festival in Germany, in 1913-the dance being an interpretation in "Eurythmics," the rage of the time, of the triumph of music over the furies of Hell in Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Before the real furies set sail over Europe the following summer, Lanny visits charming upper-class friends in England and Germany, glimpses the squalor of the lower classes...