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Democrats were first; but their show was a sorry one. Only 1,800 party stalwarts were on hand to greet the big men from Chicago: tall, grinning Boss Ed Kelly and his small, bald lieutenant, Jake Arvey (TIME, July 22). Boss Ed dutifully praised Harry Truman as "the Old Hickory type, the shirtsleeves type, who will fight for his friends and his country." Little Jake said nothing, sat making mental note of the empty seats from which delegates from 75 downstate counties were distressingly absent...
With this new drawing card, Mount Wilson will probably get more visitors than ever before. But 65-year-old Albert Childs hopes not to be there to greet them. After 24 years on his mountain (with only two ten-day vacations), he thinks it is time "to go down off the mountain and see something of the world." Then he wants to settle down to his favorite hobby -astronomy...
Other items of interest in the assortment are playbills of the 1850s advertising for "respectable young men to act as auxiliaries," stage directions for the audience advising theatre-goers to greet the play with "shouts of applause" and "appropriate outbursts of mirth," and exhortations to actresses saying with all the correctness of an English Aa student, "Ladies, if you smoke do so in private-as we do not want...
Power of the Press. Everyone these days seems to be studying English. Little children greet you on the streets with shouts of "Good Morning" or "Good Night." On a wall the other day I saw chalked, in neat English script, "Long Live Spartak's Football Team...
...First to greet the gathering of Freshmen and new upperclass veterans was C. Robert Ogden '45, assistant graduate secretary of PBH, who welcomed his audience and presented Richard A. Waite, Jr., Assistant Dean of the College and graduate secretary of Phillips Brooks House. Dean Waite added further words of greeting and explained some of the functions of the College social service bureau...