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...consequently been infinite. A nation has risen to his call; the lowliest citizen has felt the irresistable challenge of the measured rhythms. In brightly lighted music halls throughout an urbane world, sophisticated audiences experience a breathless thrill at the rousing strains of a Sousa encore. In the gathering dusk of a weary day, the pledding step of a dogged doughboy is lightened, his heart quickened by the same inspiring tune. As long as music is played, as long as men march, Sousa will be immortalized as the Great March King...
Thelma Lane lived peacefully on a hill farm near Glen Hazard, Tennessee mountain town. Her brother Chad lived with her; from dawn to dusk he swung a dirty hoe. Just as he had about got the farm paid for, in came City-Man Lynn Clayton who had inherited some deserted coal mines next door. The outlander, financed by his friend Lida Grant who came with him to watch his operations, planned to make coal-bricks out of the deserted coal-dust, sell it to the city's poor. His meat was Glen Hazard's poison. First he ordered the Lanes...
...slippered attendant brought him his books. On his way down to the reading room in the Sixtus V wing, he passed a workman and one of the architects engaged in the restoration of the Library arguing excitedly in front of a pillar. Marco Vatasso worked late. It was almost dusk, almost everyone else had left the building, when he looked up to see the Library's whole massive-beamed roof crashing down on his head. The avalanche of masonry, bursting through the vaulted ceiling of the great Salone Sistino above, smashed into the gaily painted reference room on the ground...
...three hours, near dusk, a radio officer at the airport hears that the Akron is about to return. The lounging ground crew springs into action. A large cloth panel with the figures "63" is spread on the ground, tells Commander Rosen dahl the ground temperature. Another panel, striped, is spread several hundred feet "upwind" from the mooring mast and marked by two lantern-swinging grounds men. A smoke candle is lighted to show the direction of the ground wind. Presently there is a drone of engines from the east, then the wink of two white bow lights, two green starboard...
...green smoking jacket. A white hat rested on his stringy white hair. Friends lifted him gently into the car. He lay down on the stretcher. In beside him got a pretty 17-year-old girl. A motorcycle policeman escorted the ambulance as it drove off in the dusk. Later a somberly dressed woman came out of the house. She was crying. She got into another automobile, went trailing after the ambulance...