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...foreign correspondence (see p. 59). Excerpts: "It has been said that there were 2,000,000 there. There may well have been more. No calculation is possible. Did anybody at home ever see 2,000,000 people gathered in one place? It is a stupendous sight. Imagine a great oblong field almost as large as Central Park in New York, but perfectly flat and treeless except for one lone oak. "At the upper end. in three groups of three each were 150 ft. flat frames of bunting ingeniously perforated against the wind force-the national flag in the centre flanked...
White was the fashionable color at this year's Dog Show, the 58th staged by the Westminster Kennel Club. Boxed by a low red fence, the big oblong carpet in the centre of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden was its usual faded green. The 8,000 spectators wedged tight around the fence and tiered in the great oval galleries for the final night's judging last week were a somber mass. But under the arc lights glaring from the ceiling the six dogs which stood at smart attention waiting for Dr. Henry Jarrett of Philadelphia to name...
...wardrooms of His Majesty's ships last week after the barges brought out the Christmas mail was a heavy oblong new book for officers to look at-the 1933 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships. This compendium of the world's war boats is as useful in the Royal Navy as Who's Who is in a newspaper office. Not for many a year has any Jane edited Jane's. Since 1918 the man who has compiled photographs, diagrams, measurements of all the world's battleships has been Dr. Oscar Parkes, a London physician...
...year. The route was obscure: past a cut rate drugstore, a toy shop and a haberdashery to a grimy doorway labeled: NEW WORKERS SCHOOL; up a narrow steep staircase straight to the top floor; through the bare offices of New York's Communist Opposition headquarters, to an oblong lecture room. There from door to door ran a set of 21 heavy, richly-colored fresco panels, a present to Communism by a man generally acknowledged to be the world's greatest muralist-Diego Maria Concepcion Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez de Valpuesta...
...before the dais was a table at which witnesses stood to give their testimony. Because Senators could not hear the witnesses' awed whispers, a gilded loudspeaker system was installed in the chamber for the first time in history. At one side of the dais was set a second oblong table behind which clustered the House managers, headed by Judiciary Chairman Sumners. who were prosecuting the charges. At the other side was a third table where rigidly upright sat Defendant Louderback, flanked by Attorneys James M. Hanley and Walter H. Linforth. Judge Louderback's hands were folded over...