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...Record. It was the coldest night of the fall season. A mean wind chilled an audience that failed by 200 to fill the opera house (capacity: 3,500) of St. Louis' Municipal Auditorium. The loudspeakers set up to blare the speech to an expected overflow crowd in the square outside were not needed. Willkie's delivery, awkward in 1940, turned out to be only slightly improved. And he had to race through his speech to squeeze it into a 30-minute national hookup, holding up his hand to silence applause. He still had nine paragraphs to go when...
...dance. Rosita's statuesque loveliness captured the "imagination" of the Dog Baker-weary multitude no end, and Lt. (jg) P. L. Geibel, the tactics man, was besieged with requests for new instructions on solving the gm line. At about that time, however, the capacitance was about to overflow its square root and everybody went home...
...Moderns." Inside, the Hall of Art is as self-consciously informal as a summer-art-colony show. Overflow canvases are stacked on the floor against the walls. Most of them are picturesque landscapes, seascapes, cottage scenes; still lifes of the flowers-and-carafe school, and a scattering of nudes and portraits. There are almost no "moderns." For one remarkable aspect of Pochapin's achievement is the fact that he has found a market for scads of hithero unsalable, solid, conservative U.S. paintings...
...fall. They include everything from Apprentice Seamen in the V-12 unit to high ranking Army officers in Overseas Administration ration. And then there are two branch units in Harvard's neighboring girl schools; Radcliffe with its well-established contingent of WAVES and Wellesley, with a group of overflow students from the Navy Supply Corps due to disembark on the Wellesley hills in October...
...Detroit hotel room, Wallace predicted: if control of the Democratic Party becomes a struggle between the "progressive element" and the conservatives, "I am confident the people will take care of that." Next day, the gangling, shy Vice President mounted the platform at the Michigan State Fair Grounds before an overflow crowd of 15,000. First he paid a curiously qualified tribute to Franklin Roosevelt...