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...last week the U. S. saw and heard more than 25,000 boys invade the city of Washington. Their tent cities spread beneath the Washington Monument, over Potomac Park both north and south of the Tidal Basin, across the river on Columbia Island and into the fields below Arlington National Cemetery on the Virginia shore. Everywhere barekneed youngsters in khaki perambulated through the streets with cameras and autograph books. Everywhere rose a babel of youthful voices, in childish versions of the accents of Maine and California, of Wisconsin and Texas. No connoisseur of mob scenes had ever seen such...
...Carnaggio interspersed his sight-seeing lecture with many a remark about the beauties of nearby Virginia. Upon returning to the hotel he easily sold the Smiths on the idea of a $75 trip through Virginia. Three weeks later the trio turned up in Manhattan, having been to Mt. Vernon, Arlington, Yorktown, Jamestown, Charlottesville, over the Skyline Drive to Gettysburg, Pa., then north through Harrisburg to Montreal, Ottawa, then south again through Lake Placid, Albany, Saratoga Springs, Mirror Lake and West Point...
Because "noise travels long distances", rowdy Vassar girls must tone down voices and radios, since open windows is a "spring habit". Naked legs are shocking, it was decided, in the dining hall, in Arlington and Poughkeepsie...
Through the bare corridors of the House Office Building one day last week padded an alert young German shepherd dog named Rex, a harness with a thick handgrip buckled around his shoulders. To the grip clung Rex's master, Dr. Harry P. Claus of Arlington, Va., a consulting engineer blinded in an airplane crash three years ago. Man and guide turned into a room where a sub-committee of the Interstate Commerce Committee was considering unfavorably a bill to require railroads to permit blind men's dogs to travel with them on trains...
...Chaplain William A. Sessions of Fort Lind, N. D. was billed to show how he led CCC boys in singing with his expensive accordion, but someone stole the instrument when he laid it down for a moment. For the third year the chaplains elected as their president Dr. Arlington Aice McCallum, reserve chaplain, energetic rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Washington, who presides at conventions with a stopwatch to make sure no one talks too long...