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Scant Martini. With more than 300 companies, 66 nations, Mormons, Methodists, Catholics and assorted amusement-park types all reaching for him, a fairgoer is lost without a plan, since it is possible to spend a whole day in a series of places that might better be avoided for a whole lifetime. A casual browser is better off in Death Valley than in Flushing Meadow, and the fair's avenues and promenades are already lined with the whitening bones of people who did not read up on the fair and map out their itineraries in advance...
Beware Behemoths. Beyond architecture, one other characteristic of the fair stands out from above, and before descending to join the masses the fairgoer might do well to contemplate it. There are sometimes more than 200,000 people down there and half of them seem to be standing in lines. People have waited more than 2½ hours to get into Ford, two for General Motors, one for General Electric. There is obviously a number of minutes beyond which a show is not worth waiting for. The fair is full of fine things that demand no queuing...
...paintings in many of the shows. Although a lot of the wall space went to Sunday and between-chore painters, the prizes with few exceptions were won by full-time artists whose work showed little signs of the soil, made few compromises with the traditional tastes of the average fairgoer...
...November 1933, as A Century of Progress was closing, President Herman Niels Bundesen of Chicago's Board of Health revealed that an outbreak of amebic dysentery, beginning in Chicago in mid-August, had spread over the U. S. Already many a Fairgoer, his physician having failed to recognize the comparatively rare ailment, had died and on many another Fairgoer the disease had laid its grip (TIME...
...John Fairgoer was found to be 29.15 years old. Taller and heavier than the average World War veteran, he stood 5 ft. 8.1 in. high, weighed 153 Ib. Jane Fairgoer was two years older than John. She weighed 138 Ib., was 5 ft. 3.65 in. tall...