Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Tabouis, out on a limb as usual, flatly predicted a peaceful settlement of little Finland's unwilling controversy with Soviet Russia. Next day a Soviet army crossed Finland's frontier (see p. 23) and Soviet planes dropped bombs on Helsinki. Tabouis followers were neither angry nor surprised. They had long ago learned to take her utterances with a shakerful of salt...
...Pearl Buck), best-selling novelist, sounded off on bestsellers: "To read a book because others are reading it is no reason at all. For myself, I should like to see every best-seller list abolished, and the volume of sale of any book kept a secret, even in advertising...
...news of another Fauquier County event, see...
...James W. Fesler, who could hear the weekly broadcast much better in their own front parlor (in the studio the music sounds almost as if it were being played under a blanket), make special weekly train trips to Manhattan to see the Maestro conduct in the fiery flesh. Two Buffalo newlyweds recently made Studio 8-H their Niagara Falls. One Texan chartered a plane to get there. Refugees from Central Europe spend their first two cents on U. S. soil to stamp a letter to NBC asking for passes. Bootleg passes retail at $25 a pair. Last week, when Toscanini...
...wide, Runway No. 1 of New York City's North Beach airport. Jack Zimmerman plunked the DC-3 down short, turned right and taxied up to the administration building where swart Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and a knot of city bigwigs waited in a crowd of 2,000 to see the first scheduled airline flight come in to New York City's new $40,000,000 terminal. Said Jack Zimmerman to the Mayor of New York, "This is a swell airport...