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...island in Wusih's Lake Tai Hu, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek celebrated his 60th birthday with his wife and friends. He said it was the happiest day he had spent in ten years, unmarred even by the clatter and stink of the small steamboat originally chartered to pull the picnic barge to the island...
...Bolivia. On Nov. 1, All Saints' Day, the beginning of seeding time, the young men come with their guitars and swing the prettiest cholas from the boughs of tall willows. After that there is a picnic and next day, the Day of the Dead, everyone lays flowers in the cemeteries for those who swing no more...
...Pioneers. In Kansas City, Mo., 70 "Native Sons of Kansas City" barreled out beyond the city limits, got lost three times, finally found their annual picnic ground...
...late to do anything about the cover which incongruously showed a picnic scene (New Yorker covers are made up four months in advance). But one editor suddenly thought: "My God, how would a guy feel, buying the magazine intending to sit in a barber's chair and read it!" Ross ordered a white band around the 40,000 New York newsstand copies, warning readers that there was nothing inside but Hiroshima...
Childs cut down hotel expenses, improved the toll road, built a swimming pool and picnic grounds, and advertised. He soon had the hotel in the black. When hotel guests began asking questions about astronomy, Childs built a lecture room, bought a twelve-inch telescope, and began giving evening lectures in elementary astronomy. Visitors were soon leaving up to $50,000 a year at his toll gate...