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...great and near great began to form: Supreme Court justices, Cabinet members, close Presidential advisers, and their wives. Promptly at noon, at the time prescribed by law, the short and simple fourth-term inauguration began. The Marine Band, thin and brassy in the cold winter air, burst into Hail to the Chief...
...Guests. The speech over, and Hail to the Chief again ringing in his ears, the President went back inside, to the Red Room. Also inside streamed 2,000 invited guests, for luncheon. It was the biggest reception of the twelve Roosevelt years in the White House, but it was also spare. The President had wanted chicken á la king. But he was overruled by the housekeeper, who settled for chicken salad. The rest of the lunch: hard rolls without butter, unfrosted pound cake, coffee...
Lightest gay-sad story is about two Irish Trappist monks who have put everything in the world behind them-except making secret bets with each other on the horses. The loser pays the winner in Hail Marys for both their souls...
...Large and beautiful is Minneapolis. Large (but a little smaller) and beautiful is Saint Paul. All hail to Minnesota's Twin Cities-whom TIME knows better than to get between...
...contests, originated more than 20 years ago, have brought city papers many a sensational beat. Gene Howe's has brought the Globe-News an average of 50 stories a week: news of murders, wrecks, births in cabs, isolated hail storms, family fights, flights of geese. So enthusiastically do Globe-News reader-reporters respond that one, a woman involved in an auto accident, telephoned the paper before she called the police...