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...crashing sounds came from it as sections within collapsed. Yellow dust rose over the city, and suddenly a strong, crazy wind blew up, first from one direction, then another. After a moment's silence came the small voices of human beings-shouts and cries which rose into a din throughout the city. At 5:27 a thin grey wisp of smoke crawled up behind the sagging department store. It grew larger. The fire had begun...
...enjoyed your blast against proctoring more than we who operate that benevolent system, for you emphasize what we've been trying to din into our erudite hatchet-men since the year John Harvard got his famous flunk in History...
Back at the White House, Harry Truman barely had time to wash up a bit before playing host to a royal visitor: Belgium's Regent Charles-Theodore-Henri-Antoine Meinrad, Count of Flanders. Prince Charles arrived amid a din of sirens. He wore the khaki uniform of a major general, was accompanied by Belgian Premier Paul-Henri Spaak. A tall young man with a penchant for playing ping-pong, he looked rather bored...
...demonstrative lot, were out in strength. As the Duke in Verdi's Rigoletto, Giuseppe's soaring tenor was always good, if not always golden; and he had a dramatic way of hanging on to his ringing top notes until the claque started. The claque's din was soon equaled by the audience's "bravos...
...coming out did not deter them from covering it. The TIME-LIFE Bureau at San Francisco, under Washington Bureau Chief Robert Elson, numbered about 15, one of the largest groups of reporters TIME Inc. had ever sent to one place. Their job was not to add to the din, but to place each week's report in a perspective that fitted the facts, and to report the kind of detail that got over to the reader the real character of the conference...