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...stood Ned Wells, 26, a commercial photographer who makes his living taking pictures of incoming ships from the bridge for a studio that peddles prints to crews and passengers. Fifteen hundred feet away, Wells saw a woman climb over the rail of the bridge and stand hesitantly on a girder. She was Mrs. E. Noel Durant, 61, a retired banker's wife who had been brooding over her health...
...Miami's gaunt convention hall last week, flags and bunting brightened every bare steel girder. It was the annual gathering of the American Legion. To hear Old Soldier Douglas MacArthur, 14,000 legionnaires thronged the hall, and brimmed over onto bleachers set up outside. During MacArthur's 45-minute address, he was halted by applause 49 times...
...kind of picture that forms at the mention of London or New York or Paris. On the opposite page are some postwar Moscow pictures. Like postcard shots anywhere, they put the best face on the city: behind the big buildings are acres of slums. The girder-skeleton (top left) is for a 26-story office building on Smolensky Square, not very imposing in Manhattan but a colossus in Europe. The splendid subway station is on the newly opened Great Circle link (TIME, Nov. 14). Most of the shiny autos, which are on their way to a soccer game...
...morning last week two bridge painters saw something new. A hundred yards from where they were working, a little girl with straw-blond curls stood on a girder outside the safety railing. While they gaped in astonishment, she plunged into space. Then a man quickly climbed the rail and dived after her, even before the girl's body had struck the racing tide of San Francisco Bay, 220 ft. below...
...recognition of Russia, the devaluation of the dollar, TVA. War inevitably diminished the frankness of the give & take (and though the President himself became increasingly impatient with these insatiably curious guests he had invited to ask him questions), the Rooseveltian press conference at its best was a needed girder in the U.S. democratic structure; it was, like its British counterpart, the Prime Minister's question period in the House of Commons, a chance for the people to ask questions of their Executive. This was a Roosevelt reform whose value newspapers of all political colors were agreed upon...