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...story Cathay building, Singapore's only skyscraper, is aglow nightly with a Broadway-style electrically lighted advertisement of Esther Williams in The Duchess of Idaho. Less ornate cinemas run serial thrillers (the kind shown for U.S. kids on Saturday mornings), with all twelve episodes run together in four-hour sittings. This week's favorite; Bomba, the Jungle Boy. The dance halls, puppet shows, Balinese dancing-girl acts, shell games and other enticements of the "Great...
Washington's echoing, four-acre National Guard Armory was bedizened with a staggering yardage of red, white & blue bunting, surmounted by enormous photo murals (including one of the Lincoln Memorial, on the apparent theory that the emancipator was too good for the G.O.P.). The speakers' table was aglow with the beaming faces of the President and Vice President, Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle & wife, Mrs. 0. Max Gardner, widow of the late Under Secretary of the Treasury, Lever Bros.' Ex-President Charles Luckman and fourscore or more Cabinet officers, governors and big-shot Democrats from coast to coast...
Some of the amateur artists had worked into the canvases their feelings (mostly bitter, sometimes awed) about the great strange city which is their official home. There was the riot of Times Square at night, the dark sky aglow with the reflected fire of the neon signs (by Claude Bottiau, a young Breton who works in an office supply room at Lake Success); the naked sidewalks of 17th Street, and the inside of a bare room with an iron stove (by IndoChina's Tao-Kim Hai, an expert in U.N.'s trusteeship division...
...face aglow, he rose to offer a plausible-sounding amendment to the housing bill which would provide federal funds to help erect 810,000 low-rent housing units within the next six years. Bricker wanted a provision forbidding discrimination or segregation of races in any public housing project. Cried Bricker: "There has been a great deal of shadowboxing in the Congress in the attempt to place responsibility for the failure of the civil rights program. This is the one chance we will likely have to vote on this question during the present session...
...Monroeville, a whistle stop on Indiana's frozen countryside, a bonfire crackled and popped. The celebrating went on until 3 a.m. At Portland, two counties away, the townspeople snake-danced around another bonfire. It was the same way at Crawfordsville and Jasper. All Indiana seemed to be aglow. Indiana's 37th annual high-school basketball tourney...