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...Proposals. Mr. Gibson's speech was couched in general terms prudently chosen to convey his meaning without rubbing Continental sensibilities the wrong way. He keynoted the Administration's disarmament policy on four points...
...throngs going to Mundelein will be so vast that two new railroad stations have been built at the town site. Chicago trains expect to convey 300,000 people traveling with two-minute headway. (This will be the greatest crowd ever handled by railroads in one day. In 1901 the Great Eastern Railway of England carried 200 -000 to King Edward VII's coronation, the previous record.) The railways will place 600 special guards at crossovers. Several hundred employes of the Cook County forest preserve will watch cross-roads and dispense bedding, fuel and cooking utensils at the many camp sites...
...persuasive, clear-eyed man of 62 was not a book agent. When his lips quirked into their celebrated "Mona Lisa smile," he was not attempting to convey by innuendo that the pages of Thucydides are often frank, to say the least. When he strode up and down with impatient nervous steps, the pressmen did not attribute this activity to the bombast of salesmanship. Rather they congratulated this great statesman, former Premier Eleutherios Venizelos, upon the completion of a labor no less monumental because self-imposed : his translation into modern Greek of Thucydides' great history, with an exhaustive commentary...
Undoubtedly, such publications are now unfortunately extreme. They cannot be defended in their gross descents into pornography. Though vulgar they are rarely vicious. The moral they ostensibly convey, however inartistic, is usually above reproach. Only a few which contain rehashed drummer's tales and ribald witticisms are coarse. The pseudo-art magazines despite their unmistakably sexual appeal may not be without some value in creating a whole some frankness...
...Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the honorary degree of Doctor of Music. Said President William H. P. Faunce: "He is a distinguished virtuoso and interpreter of the music of all peoples; leader of concerts in London, Madrid, Barcelona and Warsaw, who has crossed the seas to convey to prosaic America some of his own insight into the arts in the universal language of music." Conductor Koussevitzky speaks little English, could think of no fitting reply, instead lifted his bass violin, played eloquently Handel's Largo, the Andante from his own concerts, made his U. S. debut...