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...competitor hove in sight. American Export Lines, Inc. (steamships) announced it would start transatlantic air service this year. Pan Am vigorously fought the idea. One afternoon last July, Export officials dashed through the halls of their buff-colored downtown Manhattan offices joyfully shouting "We got it!" "It" was an O.K. from the Civil Aeronautics Board to fly the Atlantic (TIME, July 29). But while Export groomed its lone twin-engined Consolidated flying boat for mail and express flights to Europe, Pan Am worked feverishly to keep it on the ground...
...plot it is simple enough: at 63, Charlotte Kestner, née Buff, who in her youth inspired young Goethe to the writing of Werther, turns up in Weimar, ostensibly to visit relatives, more privately and far more shakily, in the thought of meeting Goethe once more, in the full-blown, chilly grandeur of his age. She is besieged by gawpers, beset by callers who wish to talk to and make some use of her; Goethe stages, in her honor, a formal luncheon; she meets him again, more intimately, in his theatre box; and that...
That afternoon, William Strachan, an electrician, had stepped into the room which held the ventilating apparatus, on the second floor of the British Pavilion, for a casual inspection, had noticed on the floor a small, buff-colored bag. Remembering that he had seen it there the day before, he bent over it. It was ticking. Detectives William Federer and Fred Morelock were summoned, and Morelock carried the bag through the British Pavilion, through crowds of sightseers, outside, around the Italian Pavilion, to a deserted spot near the Polish Building, where he set it down...
Bomb squad Detectives Joseph Lynch and Ferdinand Socha arrived. Lynch cut a hole in one corner of the buff-colored bag. Several sticks of dynamite were exposed. The tick-tick-tick continued. Lynch stepped back, remarked: "It looks like the real goods." At that instant the bomb went...
...murky dawned Monday, March 4, in Washington, seventh anniversary of the New Deal-seven years since the miserable, slushy day he rode, face grave, to the Inauguration ceremonies beside haggard Herbert Hoover. In mufti-no sugar-scoop coat-trailed by his secretariat, he drove around Lafayette Square to the buff-stucco Church of the Presidents, old St. John's (Episcopal). Surrounded by officialdom, Wife Eleanor, Mother Sara, he sat solemnly through an anniversary service. Presiding in the chancel was robust, 83-year-old Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody,* Groton School headmaster, who has given diplomas to Franklin Roosevelt and his sons...