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...J.R.L., killed in action in 1864 at Cedar Creek, Va., an engagement in which Captain William McKinley and Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes also fought. Had Lowell survived, suggests Greenslet, he might have been a better bet for the White House than either, and "Massachusetts would have had a president midway between John Quincy Adams and Calvin Coolidge...
Last week Boston winced again. This time the Veterans of Foreign Wars, zipped up by young bloods of World War II, turned Tremont Street into a topsy-turvy midway. As before, bonfires blazed and city-bred hoodlums filtered through the chaos to multiply the veterans' pranks...
Quebec's 35th annual provincial exhibition was the most exciting shivaree of the year. But there was more to it than the midway's cautious cooch dancers, or the daredevils in the motorcycle pit. In the Industrial Pavilion, the exhibits spelled out a new era. Typical was Paul Fortier demonstrating farm refrigeration machinery. Until 1942, he had worked for an American company. Then he decided that "French Canadians are as smart as others," and set up shop in a small garage. Already his business, originally capitalized at $4,000, is now worth...
...rationing achieved a 33% saving of flour. Cried the Tory press and the National Association of Master Bakers: misrepresentation. They pointed out that holidays always made August a low flour consumption month and that housewives had simply used up back stocks. While the people concluded that the truth lay midway between Strachey's optimistic figure and the bakers' gloomy 10% estimate, they remained unconvinced that bread rationing had ever been necessary, firmly convinced that it had been sloppily directed...
...Jokes. Next day, 11,000 Republican ward heelers, precinct captains and office seekers roared into the fairgrounds, leaving a wake of blended whiskey, cold beer and old Roosevelt jokes. They came by special train, bus, airplane, automobile caravan. They were cocky, noisy, full of fire. As farmers on the midway gaped, they clamored into the race-track grandstand for their own fun & fireworks...