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...that trying to count the passengers was like counting the snowflakes that fell in Manhattan last week. The middleaged, the old, the thrifty young thronged ancient, calm St. Augustine, Fort Lauderdale, Delray Beach on the Atlantic Coast. St. Petersburg on the Gulf of Mexico did its usual huge and placid business. The thousands of green benches along the city's sidewalks and in the parks were always crowded. Gaffers 75 and over played their daily six innings of cautious baseball, and Webb's Cut Rate Store (one egg, two strips of bacon, hominy grits for breakfast, 3? ; with...
...underguessed the cost of its new cantonments, airfields, etc., by at least $339,000,000. Revised cost: $984,300,000. Some of the reasons for this bad guessing did the Army no credit. By the Army's own, oft-repeated account, its chief excuse for being, in the placid decades after World War I, was to plan its expansion into a full-strength force. Such planning presumably would include provision for rapid, efficient construction of cantonments to house the expanded Army. Witness Somervell said that no such plans existed when expansion began last year. He added: "I want...
Last week with a good deal of hoopla NBC announced that Champion Skier Torger Tokle had agreed to broadcast his sensations while jumping at Lake Placid. Earnestly an announcer described how he was being fitted out with a 15-lb. transmitter, a mike in a mask. Then Torger swished away. There was a faint crunch of snow and nothing more. The champion, it seemed, forgot to talk...
...opera company barnstorming in the U. S., toured with the old New York Symphony to towns which had never heard a concert. Shrewd, levelheaded, anything but temperamental, he could take it in his stride when a snow-heavy trap door rattled and banged through Debussy's placid Afternoon of a Faun (as it did one night in Utica, N. Y.), or when he found himself conducting on the strippers' runway in some cramped burlesque house. He was not above giving the Pathétique Symphony the fastest performance on record so that the orchestra could catch its train...
...peace pact. The Republic had its finger in its mouth. Then Mrs. Austen Chamberlain, her husband's ablest helper, rose to the emergency. She chartered a small yacht, stocked it with international delicacies, and during one long afternoon the plenipotentiaries of Britain, Germany and France relaxed on the placid bosom of Lake Maggiore...