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...first time in history that anyone as young as Jill Poole had even attempted a Stedman Caters or a Plain Bob Royal, let alone anything so ambitious and exhausting as a whole Cambridge Surprise Maximus. As Jill descended, fresh and glowing, from the belfry, the campanologists gave her a solemn nod of approval. She had qualified as an expert in Britain's ancient and honored profession of change ringing...
...Whole Story." With solemn gusto, Franklin Roosevelt then read the roll of the war measures which the Republicans in Congress had opposed: Repeal of the Arms Embargo, 1939; Selective Service, 1940; Lend-Lease, 1941; extension of Selective Service, August...
There was nothing impromptu in this plan of campaign: Tom Dewey and his advisers were firmly convinced that 1944 was no year for barnstorming. They wanted to keep the campaign on a high, even solemn level, befitting a time of crisis. On the practical side, they knew that the mistakes a candidate makes count much more heavily, and stick in the voters' minds much more firmly, than positive gains...
...when General George C. Marshall, War Mobilization Director Jimmy Byrnes and their party stepped put of an Army C-54 transport which had flown nonstop from the U.S. They were met by Generals Eisenhower, Bradley and "Beedle" Smith, Eisenhower's crack chief of staff. Marshall and Eisenhower were solemn as they shook hands. They did not, of course, tell correspondents what they would confer about. One obvious guess: winter on the western front...
...this is pleasantly interrupted by Composer Arlen's (Stormy Weather, Blues in the Night, That Old Black Magic) music-the choral lilt of When the Boys Come Home, the solemn gaiety of Sunday in Cicero Falls (a big spectacle number), the romantic fooling of Evelina, the dusky The Eagle and Me, the warm balladry of I Got a Song (put over with a bang by huge black Richard Huey...