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Century of Progress. In Los Angeles, Arthur Moon was arrested for drunkenness on his 100th birthday...
...railroads, which usually talk to the public in conservative full-page ads and statistics, last week tried it with whoop-de-do and the can can. To mark the 100th anniversary of the first train out of Chicago, some 37 railroads and 30 equipment makers chipped in $12 million to make their Railroad Fair the biggest since the New York World's Fair. They packed 50 acres of Chicago's lake shore with sideshows, pageants, new coaches and exhibits, including this iron horse, a replica of the Best Friend of Charleston (1830), first U.S. -built locomotive in regular...
...Fortunato Ornelar Anguiano, a 52-year-old dishwasher, walked out on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, borrowed a cigarette from a passerby, lit it, took one drag, leaped up on the bridge rail, flipped the cigarette away and jumped. He was the 100th to die by jumping in the eleven years since the bridge was built...
Dismayed Her Crew . . . That night at Chicago Stadium he spoke before 20,000 Swedish-Americans who were celebrating the 100th anniversary of Swedish immigration to the Midwest. He pulled out that surefire issue-Communism-and used it as a sort of moral prop for his civil-liberties program, for slum clearance, old-age pensions, and higher minimum wages. The audience was friendly but calm...
...last week, on the 100th anniversary of the sculptor's birth, it was easy to see that, Henry Adams to the contrary, Saint-Gaudens had not been smothered. Manhattan's Century Association, a gathering place for arts and artists that have begun to gather dust, put on a private showing which highlighted the delicacy of his bas-reliefs and reached a rare pitch of portraiture in the stubble-bearded head of General Sherman-as melancholy and implacable as the head of a fighting cock...