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...sense of humor. They think the British nation pretty tough, too, after the way we have stood up to bombings." >"You may think they are inclined to make too much of the skyscrapers of New York, the lights of Manhattan, the extent of the prairies and the beauty of Niagara. If you allow yourself to be irritated by their talk it will mean you cannot find things to equal them in Britain. ... If an American soldier brags about his country, in all probability he is feeling pretty homesick for it and just to talk about it brings his homeland nearer...
Andrew Jackson at 48 won at New Orleans. Scott at 28 closed the Niagara campaign. These were the only creditable campaigns...
Died. Floyd Leslie Carlisle, 61, U.S. utilitycoon, spokesman for the power industry; of an embolism; in Glen Cove, L.I. A longtime banker and newsprint magnate, he moved on to become head of Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, biggest U.S. utility, and board chairman of Niagara Hudson Power Corp. (which manufactures all the power produced on the U.S. side of Niagara Falls), world's largest private distributor of electric power...
...pipe-smoker's puff of smoke. An instant later came hell. The ground erupted like a volcano. A halo of yellow flame flared from the spot. Even from a mile away it was blinding. Black smoke, blasted wood, little trees poured upward for a hundred feet, like a Niagara running backward...
...invented "an ingenious mechanism" for dropping a laurel wreath on the brow of George Washington, who had to put up with that sort of thing wherever he went. The launching of the Constitution was staged "with marine background scenery bordering on the marvelous, with a final climactic picture of Niagara Falls." In Americana and Elutheria Benjamin Franklin stepped out of lightning-forked clouds with nis newly invented rod and handed it to France, who electrocuted Tyranny and Pride with it and revived prostrate Liberty "by the application of Science." Finale: eight nymphs lay down on the Alleghenies...