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...artist named Azadia Walser Newman. A lynx-eyed redhead with a vague resemblance to Joan Crawford, Portraitist Newman is the daughter of a one-time Democratic National Committeeman, traces her ancestry on her mother's side directly to Charlemagne. Named Azadia after a section of Washington's Rock Creek Park which was once the family estate, she signs her paintings Azadia. Of Sitter Garner she recalled: "He called me 'little lady' and gave me a long talk about caring for my teeth." Crowned Queen Shenandoah XIII of the annual Shenandoah Valley Apple Blossom Festival at Winchester...
John Upley, Latvian blacksmith, tops the revolutionary pictures with one named Revolution in Bed, showing red, undressed small boys roughhousing in bed. A meticulous patriot, he also reproduces a plaque on a Massachusetts rock commemorating the visit in 1775 of John Hancock and Samuel Adams...
...water rose, forcing the trapped men away from their food line, Dr. Robertson guessed that they could hold out another ten or twelve hours. Soon he could hear the picks of the miners hacking frantically overhead, passing rock and dirt up to the surface by a human chain. Hospital kits were unpacked, stretcher-bearers stood ready as the tired rescuers, themselves threatened momentarily with collapse of their shaft, sent up word that they were "almost through...
...Cities and towns in the Philadelphia's itinerary: Hartford, Boston, Springfield, Toronto, Chicago, Urbana, Ill., Evansville, Ind., Atlanta, New Orleans, Birmingham, Little Rock, Dallas, El Paso, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Denver, Holdrege, Neb., Omaha, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Ann Arbor, Manhattan...
...grossing $1,000,000. This season more ground was covered, with earnings even greater. The Ballet danced with the leading symphony orchestras in Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Detroit. It played to capacity audiences in cities which had never seen a ballet. There were sold-out houses in Little Rock, Ark., El Paso, Tex., Portland, Me. In Brockton, Mass., a leading citizen was impressed because the ballet's appearance there was on of the rare occasions when he had known his townsfolk to turn out in formal evening clothes...