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...week's election neared, the candidates crisscrossed the state, shaking hands, endorsing reclamation and irrigation, belaboring each other over the Communist issue, posing for pictures without number. They agreed to a full-dress debate this week. In Pendleton, Dewey got a ten-gallon hat and talked to Chief Sunset on the Mountain. In The Dalles, Dewey posed in a regulation feather headdress, last worn by Rumania's Queen Marie on a visit in the '20s. At the same town the next day, Stassen shook hands with Chief Tommy Thompson, but balked at donning his war bonnet...
...atmosphere of the big quadrangle at sunset also contributed to the not unpleasant incongruity of the concert. Last year G. Wallace Wood-worth broke up his Mozart and Bach with "Casey Jones" and part of "Three Saints in Four Acts," both of which lose less when they are played in the Great Outdoors, and the languorous audience was a bit more responsive. As it was, the pigeons above Widener, a passing fire engine on Kirkland Street, and the murmur of the crowd stretched on the grass were distracting to the Glee Club, which was seriously singing serious works...
...always chattering while I pose." Matisse avoids fellow artists ("I can't see many people nowadays"). But the old man loves to have long chats with the town carpenter, who says he is "kindly and simple, but stubborn at times. The other day we were watching a sunset and I said, 'Just look at that wonderful streak of orange.' He replied, 'No, Jean, it's violet,' and he convinced me. Then I looked again and was mad at myself. It was really orange, you know...
...announcement to news scribes recently, McCaw stated that there was no use going west to escape maniacal professorial automobile drivers, for the morons of the sunset states are in a close second behind college professor as the worst and most dangerous drivers in the world...
...newspapermen got on TIME'S staff, the office boys used to whistle at their work; now they obey the 50-year-old newspaper taboo against whistling. On some evenings, still, an old Timer will call Matthews on the office phone and say: "Don't miss the sunset...