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Sirs: In your issue of Jan. 29, I read on p. 19, . . ."The flags on the Capitol dropped to half-staff in the floodlit night." Are not all U. S. flags hauled down at sunset? D. C. ESTABROOK Midland, Mich...
...drizzly night last week, TWA Pilot Jack Zimmerman, with 20 passengers behind him, circled over The Bronx. With the scattered lights of Central Park on his right, to his left stretched the darkened reaches of Long Island sound. Ahead of him lay a floodlit field with a runway 6,000 feet long and 200 feet wide, Runway No. 1 of New York City's North Beach airport. Jack Zimmerman plunked the DC-3 down short, turned right and taxied up to the administration building where swart Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and a knot of city bigwigs waited in a crowd...
...pair of rambunctious rodents, accepted two mighty-antlered mounted heads and the choicest pair of beaver pelts from the Company's London auction rooms. Late that night the train stopped for the trip's most unusual welcome at Brandon, Manitoba, where 10,000 children in a floodlit natural amphitheatre cheered and sang. The King and Queen stepped into the crowd to be hugged and kissed (he had been backslapped at Ottawa), as well as cheered. Tears were in the Queen's eyes as she returned to the train, murmuring, "Isn't it wonderful...
...news, the resignation of Justice Brandeis was an unexpected rocket that floodlit the Federal judiciary this week. All last week, however, Franklin Roosevelt had been busily setting off flowerpots in his own show of judicial fireworks...
...bicycles pedaled vigorously along in their own continuous stream of traffic. The little-to-do on foot crowded the quays, staring into the beam of a great searchlight. Broad Dutch faces beamed, deep Dutch shouts rose louder than the shrieking horns. For slowly, a great new ship, floodlit from stem to stern, passed down the middle of the river outward bound for New York...