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...their pictures front-paged in the Soviet press day after day. In several cases a promoted youth was astonished to find his picture almost as big as the one appearing of the Dictator. Joseph Stalin ordered the traditional celebration of Youth Day in the Red Square, but a furious downpour of rain forced the Dictator to postpone it for six days when roughly a million youths, calling themselves the "Stalinist generation," paraded before the khaki-coated, pipe-smoking Dictator. Meanwhile Stalin had his Government triumphantly announce that...
This was the National Amateur Golf Championship, which was being played in the Pacific Northwest (at Portland's Alderwood Country Club) for the first time in history. In a downpour which soaked the players the first day. Oldtimer Francis Ouimet, who won the Amateur in 1914 and again in 1931, found his ball as unmanageable as an eel, dropped out with an 85 But another oldtimer. Charles ("Chick") Evans, who held the title in 1916 and 1920, ran off a neat 74 on the mushy course in the first round of his 28th national championship. It was Evans...
...much more tolerant of radicalism in art than of radicalism in politics. When Mrs. Herbert Hoover was caught in a torrential rainstorm after inspecting the Century of Progress art show, gallant Mr. McCormick shooed a traffic officer from his corner to find a taxicab, directed traffic himself in the downpour while the officer was gone. Wisecrackers said that if it had been Mrs. Roosevelt instead of Mrs. Hoover she would have drowned...
...Macy's Own" drugs and cosmetics, including those named, arrived not at Broadway & 34th Street but in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where it soon filled a large window and several counters in the "Boston Store" of Fowler, Dick & Walker. Wilkes-Barre citizens, dripping from an all-day downpour, bought 15% of the shipment on the first day. For retailers in general this was interesting news. For manufacturers of "national brands'' it was the latest package of perturbation from Macy's. Tentatively, but none the less clearly, the department store had entered their own field...
...smells but their own voices; water is hard or soft like a hostile muscle or like friendly flesh; everything breathes and moves, lives and acts. Sample: "Flights of dead leaves were swept off by the rain. The woods were being stripped bare. Huge water-polished oaks emerged from the downpour with their gigantic black hands clenched in the rain. The muffled breath of the larch forests; the solemn chant of the fir-groves, whose dark corridors were stirred by the slightest wind; the hiccup of new springs gushing out amidst the pastures; the brooks licking the weeds with their greedy...