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...parade, but at its end, at Union Square, the count was 24,000. Reason: as the first marchers reached the Square they folded their red banners, rushed around to march by again. Second time around, spectators began to recognize faces of the 5,000 repeaters, third time around, shouted "Hello." The Communists called it the greatest May Day ever, said there were 75,000 in the line of march...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Busy Communists | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

Five girls, several of them pretty enough to be Deans' secretaries, are immured in a little basement room of Lehman Hall behind a door stencilled no admittance. They are the official hello girls of Harvard University--the telephone operators of KIR 7600, which since 1934 has been Harvard's number. Forty main truck lines lead into their switchboard and over six hundred local phones are in the system, ranging from Miss Abbott through a multitude of organizations and professors to Zoology Museum. Direct wires tie in the various graduate schools, Western Union, Postal Telegraph, and Radcliffe...

Author: By E. G., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...Chapel Hill, on the comely campus of University of North Carolina, dashing young South American caballeros last week politely lifted their hats to passing coeds and saluted them with the words: "Let's pitch a little woo." The coeds responded: "Hey" (North Carolinian for Hello). All in fun, the South Americans were busy practicing the promotion of hemisphere solidarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hemisphere High Jinks | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...Folk-Song Symphony made good listening, moved Critic Herbert Elwell of the Plain Dealer to write: "Forty-five minutes swept by like a second and left one listener with the excited consciousness of having heard something like the American continent rising up and saying hello. This music is nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Folk-Song Symphony | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...Jane's scared but I'm not." A barely audible "I'm not either" came over the air. Said Donn: "We send our love to you and to the boys and girls in Australia and to our Granny in Melbourne, Australia, who is listening for us. Hello, Granny-lots and lots of love from us and [Jane and Donn shouted together] a GREAT big kiss." Twelve-year-old Elizabeth Pirie, of the British Embassy, said solemnly: "To my young fellow countrymen in Great Britain, I say we are all thinking of you and wish you the happiest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THEY SENT THEIR LOVE HOME | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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