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...more books than Boston's had. Chicago, like the other delegations, had a newsreel to show its beauties. As the commentator said "This is the sort of thing worthy of study in Chicago," the reel stuck, and a bevy of fan dancers on ice skates froze on the screen, grinning toothily at the statesmen...
Once inside, John Lewis put on his best virtuoso performance. His meaty frame shook with laughter, trembled with scorn, vibrated with anger, froze in righteous dignity. And all the while his deft fingers tugged at the strings, rigging the conference into a one-man show...
...Shaw's Collegiate Chorale, and afterwards he appeared in some soldier shows. But a year of infantry fighting overseas and six months of paralysis from bullet wounds shattered his stage poise. His voice was as lusty as ever, but audiences gave him the heebie-jeebies and a spotlight froze him stiff...
G.I.s and Tommies at last took over their respective billets, Red Armymen withdrew into the Russian zone, together with wagonloads of German furniture and other souvenirs. At week's end U.S. and British officials froze civilians in their zones so that there could be no large-scale emigration of civilians from the Russian zone...
...Alan with all four limbs amputated. One other Army man, a pilot, has lost parts of four limbs but not as a result of wounds: he froze both hands & feet after a plane crash in New England...