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Then the parade of shiny automobiles swung off behind a noisy V of police motorcyles down Delaware Avenue, down Pennsylvania Avenue. A steady spatter of wet handclaps kept pace as jampacked thousands craned for a glimpse of the President, waving and smiling, with a lap robe pulled almost to his shoulders. Bands along the way thumped and blared, and at the sight of one in particular-the Marine Corps's only bagpipe band, home from service in Londonderry-the President turned and waved in evident appreciation...
...tree as a child to escape discipline. From that tree, he said, he saw his first torchlight parade from the village, at the time of Cleveland's election in 1892. "I got out of bed to come downstairs in an old-fashioned nightshirt-wrapped in a big buffalo robe...
...from the southern plateaus to the mountains in the north (just as their ancestors did thousands of years ago). I became chummy with the Khan of the tribe, one Fatula Poor Satib. He asked me to autograph something for him. And what do you think he pulled from his robe as he sat astride his big, white, handsome horse? Nothing else but a copy of TIME...
...Robe (RKO), from Lloyd Douglas' bestseller, will be filmed in Technicolor at a cost of $3½ to 4 million, will run 3½ to 4 hours, and will be directed by Hit-Guarantor Mervyn LeRoy (Random Harvest, Madame Curie). ¶ The Miracle (Warner), based on Max Reinhardt's hyperpituitary Gothic superspectacle, is budget-estimated by Producer Wolfgang (son of Max) Reinhardt at $3,000,000. Biggest casting problem: an actress adequate for the double role of nun and Madonna. The film will be in Technicolor, and will run the better part of four hours...
...enjoyed last year-both report your favorite radio programs are Information, Please and Fibber McGee & Molly. But you play more bridge than he does, and you read a little more than he does, and your second and third choice books were Our Hearts Were Young and Gay and The Robe, while his were Berlin Diary and See Here, Private Hargrove...