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Olszewska, speeding by train toward Chicago, took no notice. Superb singing, she hoped, might eradicate the stain. A good appearance, too, would help and remembering that the first rehearsal was early next day, that her one pair of shoes was dusty, she slipped them outside the compartment door. In the morning there were no shoes, polished or unpolished. Knowing no English, wanting no more scenes, Olszewska stole from the train in her red bedroom slippers, drove at once to the shopping district, scuffed up and down Michigan Avenue till she could find shoes worthy of a prima donna's first...
Chicago. Wearing a pair of socks monogrammed across the shin with his name, "because one of my friends in North Carolina gave them to me"; jostled, huzzahed, jeered, cheered, gaped at, the Nominee spent three days in pandemonstrative Chicago. Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon drew a picture in the Chicago Tribune of an elephant looking down from a window on the crowd-banked Smith parade, and saying: "It's lucky for me that eagerness to see him doesn't mean eagerness to vote for him." That night the crowds burned bonfires of Chicago Tribunes in the middle of Michigan...
BELGIUM Gorilla Sanctuary A bowing major-domo announced "Mrs. Mary L. Jobe Akeley and Dr. J. M. Derscheid," when that intrepid pair returned from Africa to Brussels, last week, and were received by the King of the Belgians. Graciously His Majesty permitted Mrs. Akeley to set up a portable cinema projector; and soon life-size cinemagorillas were capering, fighting, leaping high, and giving suck to their young before the gaze of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth. The films were taken in the Belgian Congo, where Dr. Derscheid and Mrs. Akeley have been laboring to complete a suitable memorial...
Middle Seventeenth Century. Writer-folk had always filled him with awe: he patronized a hack-writer till the scurrilous wag wrote a lucrative burlesque on his patron's foppish existence. King Charles thereupon gave Orlando escape as Ambassador Extraordinary to Constantinople though Nell Gwyn regretted that such a pair of legs should leave the country...
...lighting circuit; when the frequency is 480 cycles, the receiver pulls a switch that disconnects the lamp. All lamps in a particular circuit go on and off at the same instant, just as if a man operated one switch in a control station. For another group of lamps another pair of frequencies would operate the circuit; and so on. The great advantage is that a few men in a central station could handle all of a city's lighting...