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...half an hour on CBS radio last week, two oldtimers reminisced nostalgically about their quarter-century on the air in the golden age of radio. It was the 10,000th time before the microphones for Amos 'n' Andy (Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll...
...cars). Cheap ($1,095), economical (36 miles per gallon), and with a top speed of 70 m.p.h. from its aircooled four-cylinder engine, the Volkswagen is also beginning to edge into transatlantic markets. Volkswagen's total U.S. sales have already reached 1,200; it recently shipped its 3,000th car to Brazil, and this week, for the first time, invaded Canada...
...Paul Ehrlich, who in 1912 got the 150,000th Leitz made, used one in his work on Salvarsan ("606"), the cure for syphilis...
...musty old basilica of St.-Denis, burial place of French kings, had seldom seen such polite excitement. As part of Paris' celebration of its 2,000th birthday last year, diplomats, dignitaries and celebrities turned out to hear a performance of old French music which was also being broadcast across Europe and to the U.S. Highlight: a recently discovered coronation mass billed as the work of 17th century Composer Etienne Moulini...
...porter carrying his bags from the ship asked: "Are you the 1,000,000th?" Ranezay nodded, and the porter set down his bags. "I got to shake your hand," he said. The cab driver who drove them to St. Patrick's Cathedral declared proudly: "I'm going to put a sign in the back that the i, 000,000th rode here." At St. Patrick's, the Ranezays knelt and gave thanks...