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Arizona telephone poles, from the Grand Canyon to the Mexican border, blossomed out last fortnight with posters that screamed...
People, thousands and thousands of people, more people than there are in Indianapolis and St. Louis and Birmingham, Ala. combined, jam-packed the stone-cliffed canyon of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue for half a day last week. Three out of every ten New Yorkers were there, 2,000,000 strong. They fainted, they cheered, their feet hurt, their clothes got mussed. At 58th Street their sheer bulk bulged through splintering plate glass windows. The Governor's motorcycle escort rode one down. A pack of them upturned a policeman and his screaming horse. There never had been so many...
More than a week passed before a lineman discovered the last missing team between Sudbury and Abitibi Canyon in Northern Ontario. Grounded in a thunderstorm about 550 mi. from the start, Balloonists Trotter & Van Orman had plunged through the bush until they stumbled on power lines of Ontario Hydro-Electric Co. Shrewdly they had chopped down a pole, knowing that soon a lineman would be sent to repair the break. On the stump they left a note saying that they were following the line south. Finding the note the lineman hurried after, found them huddled in a shanty, their clothes...
...evening last week a file of cars climbed craggy Virginia Canyon 50 mi. west of Denver, rolled suddenly into the narrow street of an ancient mining town, wedged in a gulch a mile and a half above sea level. Above the main street the houses of Central City hang on the gulch walls like loose bark. Oldtime shops, dance halls, faro games, were going full blast, full of light & noise. Beaver-hatted men and bustled women strolled past. Lantern-faced miners smiled from their doorways. No Rip Van Winkle apparition in the mountains, all this was Colorado's second...
Herewith a true likeness of Director Cammerer and apologies to onetime Senator Otis F. Glenn of Illinois whose picture TIME used by mistake. Last week busy Director Cammerer was still Parkinspecting, had visited Yosemite, Sequoia, Zion, flown across the Grand Canyon of the Colorado...