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Around the Square, students gathered at news-stands or in entryways and cried. The Memorial Church bells rang, and the flag at University Hall was lowered to half-mast. Officials announced the next day's classes and the Harvard-Yale football game were cancelled...
...Harvard Square dozens of students were standing by the kiosk, waiting for the extras to begin to arrive. A man in painter's overalls was arguing with a policeman about putting the flag over the Coop at half-mast...
...flags hanging in front of the brick final clubs were all at half-mast, and in Freedom Square a 'Poonie told a friend he had just sent someone to buy two flags for the Castle...
...great Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth approached New York Harbor with a captured Nazi flag flying at her main mast, an effect achieved by laughing, shouting soldiers. Manhattan's excitable garment workers threw tons of paper and cloth shreds into the streets...
...Toward us, like a great feather . . . is the Hindenburg. The members of the crew are looking down on the field ahead of them getting their glimpses of the mooring mast...