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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...Polack marveled, then he jumped. He marveled at the Sesquicentennial International Exhibition at Philadelphia, into which he had crawled beneath a fence in advance of the earliest crowds. He jumped when a 21-gun salute boomed the opening of the exposition last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Opening | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

...Polack's eyes popped at a huge bell, four stories high. He wondered why anyone should want a bell that big. He strolled past a tinselly lagoon and came to five great exhibition halls, not one of which was complete and all of which were sparsely dotted with exhibits. He met some mustachioed Slavic friends who told him of a mysterious Treasure Island, of a quaint restoration of an 18th Century street, to the east of which towered a shining Oriental building, essence of India. He walked wonderingly on, viewed fireworks, stalwart live stock, grassless lawns, a stadium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Opening | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

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