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...aeroplane over the German lines. "The day the news of Quentin's death came, Mr. Roosevelt was at Oyster Bay. . . . after reading the despatch, he carried the sad tidings to his wife. Then he put his arm around her waist and together they walked in silence down the path which led into the woods. Down that path I had seen them go so many times together, just like this, his arm around her waist, as attentive as a young husband. They would, when they were alone at Oyster Bay, fix a little lunch and stroll down that path...
...next day Col. Thompson clambered into his Filipino-financed automobile for a tour of Tayabas province and a two-day visit at the plantation home of Manuel Quezon, president of the Filipino Senate. Like Caesar in triumph, Mr. Thompson's august entourage proceeded down a flower-strewn path between 3,500,000 coconut trees over 100 feet high-slowly on, on to Lucena, capital of the province, where eager little Malay schoolgirls dressed all in snowy white, held up an immense placard: "Welcome, Mr. Thompson; we are confident of your sense of justice...
...silvery blimp dipped. A Roman rabble surged and roared. Four plumed steeds cavorted proudly, their path cleared by resplendent policemen. At the Palazzo Chigi out of a triumphal oldtime open coach, stepped General of the Air Umberto Nobile (TIME, Aug. 2, SCIENCE), to be saluted and embraced in person by his swart Excellency, Benito Mussolini. Shortly, master and man appeared on the Chigi balcony, where Mussolini's jowls became suffused with blood, his muscular throat thick with emotion...
...went a white rat, all the latches flapping open after him, to nibble contentedly. Spectators cheered. Eclipse. Professor H. H. Turner endeared himself to the British working public by agitating for a special holiday, next June 29, a holiday to be spent by patriots in flocking to the path of the first total solar eclipse Britons will have enjoyed in 203 years. All should carry reliable stopwatches and make notes of the duration of totality; the stars visible, if any. "The occasion should, however, be regarded primarily as an opportunity for seeing a wonderful spectacle," the professor added...
...only unpleasant part of his sentimental journey had been the parades of febrile natives carrying such signs as "No Bacon sandwich for us"** and many another similar legend. Enterprising Manila politicians had prepared and shipped these placards out to the islands which lay in Col. Thompson's path...