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...Hotel Taft was crowded with politicians, all wide awake. Leading Candidate John Davis Lodge, of the Boston Lodges,* paused amid the swirling delegates and nibbled on the nail of his index finger. "This," grinned Lodge, "is like trying to pin down a pup tent in a windstorm." A fife, drum and bugle corps blew for Lodge outside the hotel, and delegates found new lyrics to When Johny Comes Marching...
...parade is a shabby sight, but still outstanding in a completely shabby society. Fife & drum corps, the uniform of blue shirts and black trousers, the blue flag with the rising sun are the outward FDJ trappings. FDJ members are enlisted in the Red "people's police" and entrusted with "responsible duties." The FDJ school at Bogensee, near Berlin, is planning a "strategic seminar" for the "pre-military and revolutionary training" of 16-to 18-year-olds. Sizable contingents of FDJ members are already being schooled in guerrilla warfare. Western observers believe that, in the near future, all physically...
...Berlin's Tempelhof Airport, which has become something of a shrine for Berliners since the airlift, the U.S. staged a large, lively show including a parade of 1,000 crack troops (led by the 298th Army band and the 7868th fife & drum unit), massed Army, Navy and Air Force colors, helicopters which performed special feats of daring, an exhibition of jets and other U.S. aircraft, and (in the afternoon) a baseball game. Tempelhof field was jammed by 100,000 Berliners who had turned out with baby carriages, folding chairs and lunch boxes to see the show. Star attraction proved...
...heat off Berlin. With their wiggling disruption of truck traffic from the West and the launching of Pushkin's pogrom, the heat went on again. Sly Gerhart Eisler, now propaganda boss for Eastern Germany, announced a Soviet Youth March for Whitsuntide (May 27-30). With flag and fife, said he, special "people's police" units would lead half a million members of Communist youth groups in a demonstration into Western Berlin. German anti-Communists were sure that the Reds would try to take the opportunity to provoke violence, and if they could, to seize Western Berlin. Some Western...
...Boston, includes an immense number of "Rooms." For those who want a floor show with their drinks and music the Darbury Room is fairly cheap, and the Oval Room, with an "All-College Dance," is fairly expensive. For the collegiate atmosphere, with plenty of group singing, etc., the Fife and Drum Room is a good bet, while probably the lowest-priced in the whole field of dine-dance-drink is the Campus Room...