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...sweeping vista of this tidy world. It had the pure newness of renderings on an architect's drawing board. Among the 53 Fransioli works were paintings of New England houses as scrupulous as portraiture. There were cityscapes of Boston and Cambridge in which the red bricks of Beacon Hill and Harvard glow with warmth, the Charles is mirrorlike and the winter sun, casting long shadows, is bright on the bare trees. His ruler-drawn interior, Vista from Within, suggests the antiseptic foyer of a brand-new medical building. Fransioli's neatness and light reminded proper Bostonians of their...
...prepare for this year's big fight, Fred Hall stirred up moribund elements of the Republican Old Guard, combined them with insurgent Young Republicans, and made himself the leader of a faction described by the Wichita Beacon as a "collection of defeated candidates, disgruntled public employees and power-hungry persons who have been shunted aside in past weeks, months or years." Most prominent of Hall's backers: Alfred M. Landon, who was shunted off onto a siding in the 1936 presidential election...
...shocks of newspaper expenses. Publishers are also installing expensive color-printing equipment that enables them to earn more money from advertisers for the same amount of newsprint. But improvements run high. "I bought the Free Press [for $3,200,000]," says Publisher John Knight, who controls the Akron Beacon-Journal...
...Lone Beacon. At 0050, air-ground reported: "Banjo Six is going in."Tracers arched over the drop zone. On Banjo Six's second pass, there were more enemy tracers and white bursts of flak following the plane. Banjo Six reported one hit but no casualties. At 0103, a mortar flare bloomed over the drop zone and revealed, for an elusive moment, the trenches and scarred earth below. Then mortar shells burst in angry red balls across the drop zone. For the paratroopers that was the toughest drop of the night...
...being polite." Two hours later, it was time for us to head back to Hanoi, and Sergeant K. radioed brief word down to the defenders of Dienbienphu: "End for me. See you tomorrow." As Luciole turned homeward, the drop-zone lights blinked out save for one lone navigation beacon in the dark, a bright symbol of the garrison's famous stand...