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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...names before the fans. Champion Roosevelt felt it was not too early for him. to go through his paces for the benefit of some 50,000,000 voters who will turn thumbs up or down on him in 1936. Simultaneously he could gauge the fitness and morale of his local handlers throughout the country. Before leaving Washington, Champion Roosevelt began getting himself in shape with an impressive four-day political workout...
...welcome Springfield. All he knows about them is what his Sunday-school teacher told him. And for that, for everything he wishes them a nice time. It was from Springfield, he recalls, that a psychologist not so long ago broke into print by breaking the ice in the local lake and saving a drowning terrier. Gentlemen, Welcome to Harvard...
Glistening like huge soap bubbles in the sunshine, 13 gas bags from seven nations drifted up from Warsaw one afternoon last week in the 23rd annual International Gordon Bennett Balloon Race. Last away was Polonia of Poland, winning nation in 1933 and 1934. Wise in the ways of local air currents, the Polish pilots shot far higher than the visiting contestants, soon found a strong easterly breeze. Next day, over the Russian border, a squadron of Soviet airplanes swooped down upon them, fired warning salvos for 40 minutes. Stanchly, the Poles refused to land. Onward, for two days more, they...
...depict a U. S. scene in a purely U. S. way," George Gershwin worked earnestly for two years, visited Charleston, for local atmosphere, closeted himself in his penthouse apartment for five hours a day, composed steadily in town throughout the summer, clad in beach shorts and shirt. From the beginning he was determined to have his opera indigenous to the U. S. He was fascinated by the beauty of Negro singing, the spontaneity of Negro acting. Said he: "They've tried the Indian dozens of times but unfortunately with little success...
Mary Young, long a favorite with Boston audiences, scored a triumphant return to the local boards in the Friday opening of "Post Road", the Wilbur Steele-Norma Mitchell comic mystery which enjoyed a seven months New York run last season. First night attention centered largely on Miss Young's performance which was invested with a good amount of her gracious charm and gentle humor...