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...result was so much meaningless lip motion. With better understanding they watched a female quintet who indicated "rockets' red glare" spelling out "rockets" with their hands, touching two fingers to their lips ("red"), throwing open palms out from widened eyes ("glare"). Thus began New York's quietest convention in 51 years-the 17th Triennial of the National Association of the Deaf, which has not met in Manhattan since its first convention...
...ABOUT?Archibald Marshall?Button ($3.50). Random reminiscences of Punch's gentlest contributor, England's quietest living novelist...
...Quietest but most crushing squelch came from the greatest golfer of them all. In Hollywood, whither he went to make some movies after the gala opening of his Augusta National Course (TIME, Jan. 23), Robert Tyre Jones II said with the finality of an old poker player discussing wild deuces: "It might make an interesting game, but it would not be golf...
...straw polls, about 1,700,000 protest votes are to be cast for Socialist Norman Thomas. Undoubtedly many an alleged Forgotten Man will, like Henry Ford, have failed to register or is otherwise ineligible to vote. It is also true that the forces against a Change are usually quietest when the likelihood of Change is most imminent. As of last week the election of 1932 looked like a narrower thing than it seemed last month, with the outcome locked in the breast of that unknown if not forgotten character, the Common Citizen...
...shirts. Two Left Centre deputies arrived quarreling; one twice slapped the other's face. A senator and a deputy began a furious fist fight, blundered into War Veteran Deputy Louis Sevestre who has only one leg, knocked him down. But leading Paris papers called the proceedings "among the quietest in years, out of respect and homage to M. Doumer...