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Wonders & W.C.s. The advance wave of U.S. tourists had already crashed against Europe's shores. Piccadilly Circus, the Roman ruins and the Louvre were acrawl with dollar-shedding Americanos. Approximately 400,000 tourists from the States (100,000 more than last year's record) were going to Europe to spend an average of six weeks, goggling at the wonders and grumbling at the water closets of the Old World. One-third of them were going overseas by air, and most of them were heading for Italy (which was drawing pilgrims of all nations for Holy Year observances), France...
Hearings on the Teachers Oath Law thus far had been at all times lively, to say the least. But it was the hearings for repeal which began in March, 1936 that were really characterized by the circus tempo associated with the Teacher's Oath controversy. The Boston Herald reported they "were probably the most noisy and colorful in State House history." Gaetano Salvemini, then Lauro de Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, could scarcely be heard at a session March 18 because of the uproar, part of which was in his support and most own which was against...
...Smith, next man in the order, lined one out toward the 370 mark but a circus catch by Charley Walsh momentarily staved off the scoring. Turner let up on Ed Syney, walking him to put men on first and second with...
...craftsman. When he reports Father Cawder's metaphysical probings, his writing often goes dead and resembles a religious disputation more than a novel. When he should be driving his story to its climax, he lets it creep along. As recompense he offers some marvels of observation: the tawdry circus carnival, the chatter of unworldly nuns, and Father Cawder himself in all his miserable genuineness. Father Cawder may never become a cardinal-nor The Encounter ever match The Cardinal in sales-but Author Power has told a good, unsentimental story...
General Maxwell Taylor, U.S. commander in Berlin, and his British and French opposite numbers watched the proceedings from a special observation stand; they took turns flying over the city in a helicopter, which hovered noisily above the circus below...