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...Foods and Beverages Building visitors can 1) inspect a 1,000 Ib. Exposition Cake; 2) see National Biscuit Co.'s Mickey Mouse in color-the only commercial film Walt Disney has made; 3) watch Hills Bros.' color film on the making of coffee and, whenever a cup of it is flashed on the screen, sniff aromatic coffee fumes blown at them from ventilating machines...
...family's money came from coal. His rich Grandfather Warren Delano had anthracite holdings in eastern Pennsylvania, where there is still a ghost town named Delano. As a young husband in 1908 he rode horseback with his uncle, another Warren Delano, over the Cumberland ridges of Virginia to inspect bituminous properties in Kentucky's Harlan County, later to be called "bloody" for its bitter strikes and brutal strikebreaking. His point: Franklin Roosevelt knows about coal mine management from personal experience...
Visitors to the New York World's Fair last week: Leland Whitman Cutler, president of San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair (Said he: "You have me, gentlemen."); Alexis Carrel (to inspect the Carrel-Lindbergh mechanical heart in the Medicine and Public Health Building). Dedicating their nations' pavilions were Norway's Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha; Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Ingrid; Sweden's Count Folke Bernadotte; Finland's Minister to the U. S. Hjalmar J. Procope; Rumania's Minister to the U. S. Radu Irimescu...
Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews of the New York Times stopped on a crowded, rutted road outside Figueras one day last week to inspect several truckloads of notable refugees. The last time he had seen them was outside the Prado Museum in Madrid two years ago and he was glad to see they had survived the long flight, first to Valencia, then to Barcelona, and now to France. They were paintings, masterpieces by Goya, El Greco, Velazquez, Murillo. taken from the National Museum and the homes of wealthy Madrilenos. Their value was incalculable...
...Freshman Dining Hall. The new positions as House Athletic Secretaries, created last year, provided 25 upperclassmen with earnings of $4,350. Among its unusual placements the Office supplied the hero and villain for a pictorialized serial in a local tabloid, a man with good eyesight to inspect the life buoys which hang from various bridges in and around Boston, and the Harvard members of a combined Harvard-Radcliffe team which took part in the first trans-Atlantic spelling bee with Oxford. Among the regular summer jobs the largest earnings went to tutor-companions, $34,429 for 85 jobs, and camp...