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High spots in the 70-minute program, which Rudy had graciously consented to come out from Boston and voluntarily present the Freshmen, were the rendering of a song, "The Ghost of Dinah," by Ann Graham, platinum girl, the mimicry of Al Bernie, 14-year old boy marvel, and the singing and playing of the leader and the Connecticut Yankees themselves...
...last man they are eager to show Joseph Stalin what they can do. What they lack in formal training they make up for in imagination. Thus it is that Russia is flooded with garish science news and the Soviet citizen has hardly time to catch his breath after one marvel before another is upon...
...simple peasants as curiosities; he believes in them, backs their earthiness to outlast such monuments as Manhattan: "In your subways, where now rumble steel cars jammed with people, will lie in lazy putrefaction rolling water, green and slimy. But somewhere dust-covered volumes will hold the glory of the marvel city, one and all, while the scorpions here shall crawl from their hiding, presaging rain to a simple folk who have no barometers. For simple folk never perish. Never ! They hide away from the crushing march of your progress. They are the wheat kernels of humanity, and the salt...
...that America has ceased to marvel at dance marathons, and flag-pole sitting no longer pays dividends, it is not at all remarkable that Yankee ingenuity has provided another spectacle for the vicarious enjoyment of the multitude, which combines an element of sport with the best features of the aforementioned pastimes--namely, the one hundred and fifty rubber bridge match of Ely Culbertson and wife us. Hal Sims and wife at Crockferd's Club in New York...
...Italy's German-speaking Tirol and to beat up Fascist sympathizers, the Dictator quietly moved up several Italian battalions which arrived in the night, doffed uniforms, put on civilian clothes and next day gave the German hooligans the beating of their lives while Italian police pretended to marvel at the frequency of brawls and fist fights. As the Nazis fled to Nazidom, the regiment resumed uniforms, the Tirol resumed its calm and in Rome spokesmen for II Duce scoffed politely at "those fantastic rumors from the Alto Adige" (Italy's name for Southern Tirol...