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...Lincoln, Neb., a state commission was all set to unveil a statue of Democrat William Jennings Bryan when Republicans were seized with a sense of esthetics. The statue of the Great Commoner looked "like an abandoned suitcase," critics declared, and was grossly out of proportion to "the powerful, magnificent splendor" of the Capitol's gold-glazed dome. G.O.P. Governor Val Peterson took a middle course. He ruled that the statue could be unveiled Labor Day as scheduled, but might later be moved to a less controversial spot...
Slender, faun-faced Dancer Weidman, 46, is the son of a Lincoln, Neb. fireman. He joined Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis famed Denishawn group in 1920. On a tour of the Orient with them, it suddenly came over him how absurd it was for a group of Americans to perform classic Oriental dances for the Orientals. "I said to myself, 'Why am I here trying to do their dances. . . . They must wonder how we dance ourselves. How do we?' " In 1929 he teamed up with another Denishawn star, Doris Humphrey, and set out to supply an answer...
...Finns and Swedes would have to look to their javelins. The U.S. had a contender who threatened their long dominance in the art. In the National A.A.U. Track & Field Championships last week at Lincoln Neb., he ran up to the mark and heaved his steel-tipped spear into the air. It plunged into the turf shy of the blue flag which marked the world-record distance (258 ft., 2⅛ in.). The thrower, a curly-haired osteopath from Los Angeles named Steve Seymour, 26, had set a new U.S. record...
Furthermore, the bill seemed certain to nullify the antitrust suit against rate agreements of Western railroads now being tried in Lincoln, Neb. Snapped the Louisville Courier-Journal: "It is hard to convince opponents of the bill that it is not an effort to beat the courts to the punch." The bill was the biggest step yet in the trend to free big sections of the economy from antitrust laws...
...homey summer thoughts. Pittsburgh discussed the drop of the Pirates with the sad indulgence of a disappointed'parent. In Des Moines, and all through Iowa, farmers reluctantly decided that the heavy rains (a regular flood) had washed away the chances of a full corn crop. In Alliance, Neb., Editor Ben Sallows of the Times-Herald griped good-naturedly about prices: "Life must be worth living. The cost has doubled, and still everybody hangs on." Out in Montana, the people talked mostly about fishing and the Rodeo. Everywhere, they talked about vacations-and this year you could do more than...