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...National Gallery. Officials are fiddling with the thermostats to duplicate the Louvre's temperature and humidity so that all will be well on Jan. 8 when the painting goes on display for three weeks. Back home, the rhubarb over her visit to the U.S. raged all the louder. "Knowing Americans," snarled one art critic "they'll probably have her parading down Fifth Avenue in the bitter cold in an open car under tons of confetti...
...people of Babylon laughed and said unto Argaman the prophet: "What are you, a nut or something?" And they played the music louder...
World War II turned San Diego from a city of 289,348, sleepily content to live off its famed naval base, into one of the nation's major aircraft producers. The boom grew louder after the war, with the demand for new planes for the burgeoning airlines and the rapid evolution of new Air Force fighters and bombers. By 1950 the population was up to 556,808; by 1960 it had soared to 1,033,011, and San Diego was proudly-and rightfully-calling itself the fastest-growing major city...
...loudspeaker; after a long illness; in Pasadena. A born and forever-after confirmed New Yorker, Husing tried various jobs, from carnival barker to seaplane pilot, before getting his first chance on radio in 1924, fibbing that he had a Harvard degree, and proving that he could "talk longer and louder" than any of the 600 other applicants for a WJZ announcer's job. In a grand era of such well-remembered voices as Graham McNamee and Clem McCarthy, Husing delighted millions with his coverage, working out phrases ("naked reverse," "a whole host of tacklers") to describe the action...
Counting the 138 hours directed at Latin America by Red China and Soviet Russia. Latin Americans are being bombarded by an overlapping 300 hours of Red propaganda a week. While this strident Red voice becomes something of a bore to Latin Americans, it is louder and longer than the Voice of America, which beams a mere 63 hours of Spanish-language broadcasts and 21 hours of Portuguese each week toward Latin America...