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...side of the Sierra Nevadas, in Southern California. The Owens Valley settlement may eventually hold some 50,000 Japs. General DeWitt has plans for another center on the Colorado River near Blythe. But that was a dreary prospect for the Nisei outcasts, who remembered their rich lands and the smell...
Baltimore's resourceful Director Leslie Cheek Jr., who has used colored lights and even smell to attract gallerygoers to his Baltimore Museum of Art, was busy last week wiring his shop for sound. Director Cheek's sound equipment will emit both lectures and soft music through the museum's ventilating system. During the local artists' show this month, the microphones will croon such apt items as Maryland! My Maryland. A subsequent exhibition of Russian icons will be set to Russian Orthodox music...
...modeled their fighting forces on the French. But France's humiliation in the Franco-Prussian War eventually turned the Japanese genius for emulation toward Germany. In 1885 a student of Marshal von Moltke, Major Meckel, went to Japan with a military mission to teach the sword swingers the smell of powder...
...along his rise from sewer worker to political boss of Chicago, Edward Joseph Kelly learned not to drop his gs, acquired a hard, shining polish. To his machine's reputation for ballot-stuffing, patronage-grabbing, "muscling" the votes of prostitutes and gamblers, there still clings a sewer-like smell. But the sanctified odor of a Senatorial toga, thought Ed Kelly, might cover that...
Election day was unusually orderly. But during the quiet the Popular Front, the mining, industrial and farm workers who did not like the dictatorial smell of General Ibáñez, rolled up a whacking majority of 55,000 (out of 460,000) votes for Juan Antonio Rios...