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...Scene Is Set. Now the sun rises from the east behind us in China and throws its glare directly on the Japs on the mountain to the west, blinding them. From our observation post on the hill nearest to Huilungshan, the whole battlefield seems very theatrical, very beautiful...
Hopkins has been in Washington almost as long as Franklin Roosevelt; he arrived ten weeks after the 1933 inauguration. In the early days, as administrator of CWA and WPA, he worked in the glare of white-hot publicity, took the jabs and gave back in kind. Of late, he has labored as secretly and anonymously as it is possible to do in Washington. Journalists began labeling him the "mystery man" of the Administration?a tag taken up and expanded by Hopkins' enemies...
...with $1,250,000 donated by her followers, she built the huge (5,300 seats) Angelus Temple, provided it with crystal doors, a silver band, a $25,000 radio station. In the Temple her talents found full scope. Clad in white flowing robes, her hair burnished gold in the glare of the arc lights, a Bible under one arm and a bunch of red roses in the other, she exhorted the Angelenos to come and be saved...
...dark, and fog hanging over the flat Indiana countryside rushed steadily back into the glare of the headlight of the Dixie Flyer, pounding south from Chicago. Locomotive Engineer Frank Blair stared hard ahead, to catch the dim gleam of the rails. Suddenly, about five miles from Terre Haute, he saw something which few railroad engineers have seen, under the modern railroad signal systems.* Into the headlight sprang the headlight of another locomotive, on the single track ahead. Frank Blair's palm hit the throttle; he jerked at the air brakes. The huge drivers screeched and slid, and Engineer Blair...
...even the most optimistic of the war correspondents had not anticipated the rocket's carrying power, the astonishing speed it had developed by this week. It had burst again & again, had shot out spectacular and stunning bolts in all directions. The rocket's red glare lit up these accomplishments in a historic victory of U.S. arms...