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Shortly after 8:30 o'clock Nominee Landon, who planned to spend the night with a friend in St. Joseph. Mo., rose to : bring to an end one of the strangest interludes in the history of U. S. presidential campaigns. As the two new friends parted to resume their strenuous contest for the nation's greatest prize, Franklin Roosevelt said: "Well. Governor, however this comes out, we'll see more of each other. Either you come to see me or I'll come...
...Marx was a poor German Jew; Engels was the promising son and heir of well-to-do textile manufacturers. His family were deeply pained when he became an adolescent pinko; as his political shade deepened to red their annoyance turned to alarm. And from their point of view, the strangest thing about Friedrich was that he was a good business man. He made such a suc cess of the English mill at Manchester that he was eventually made a partner, in spite of his regrettable politics. But. from the time he met Marx, Engels had no real interest in anything...
...Strangest sculpture of the show is able Warren Wheelock's wooden head of William Randolph Hearst from whose eye-sockets shockingly jut two red corks. Title: Hearst Sees...
Most effective was the Swan Dance, filmed by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford when Pavlova visited them in Hollywood in 1930, a few months before her death. Strangest shot was one taken by Dandré in Pavlova's garden in Hampstead which showed her in a simple gingham dress, stretched out on the flagstones beside a pool and talking to a pet swan. Dandre hid behind a bush to take the picture with a small sound camera, recorded his wife's curious, high-pitched voice as she called: "Come on, Jack, come Jacko, oh darling." Members...
...strangest thing about this strange bequest is that Mr. Warren believed that it would be a memorial to the "best ideals and traditions of the Anglo-Saxon race, to which the United States owes its culture," and that the boys receiving scholarships of this character would "best exemplify" such traditions...