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...Henry strode ashore (in borrowed regalia) to wreathe Montevideo's monument to General José Artigas, hero of Uruguay's war for independence in 1814-20, and to give the press his version of the historic Battle of Punta del Este...
...store off Pennsylvania Avenue. After an exchange of season's greetings, Reporter Strout probed: buying gifts for others? No, said Justice McReynolds-a gift for himself. To a clerk he boomed stentorian-wise : "A package of marbles, please; the kind used for Chinese checkers." He got the marbles, strode majestically off down the street, alone...
Dressed in a faultless blue suit with a white carnation in his buttonhole, pearl spats and ascot tie, he strode into court, announced thai! he had come to settle the whole affair by paying out of his own pocket Mrs. Brown's $6,500 claim, her $6,000 lawyer's fee. A gratifying uproar filled the court...
...Dewey rigorously followed Rules 5, 6, 7 of How To Become President (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930), by cooperating fulsomely with the Press, by traveling about, by appearing hale and lusty on all occasions. For the camera he let his mother pin a flower in his buttonhole; he vigorously strode up & down Owosso's Main Street; he posed chummily with Farmer Earl Putnam, who once paid him $30 a month to run a cultivator, do chores; he ate Mrs. Putnam's noonday "dinner" of home-cured ham, eggs, new potatoes, corn from the patch, fresh cherry pie. He played...
...finally cogitated the conduct of Hayes & Co. Eager crowds, including Cinemactress Rosalind Russell (home from Hollywood on vacation), packed in and around the courtroom to hear the verdict: "Guilty." Tears filled the hard eyes of Boss Hayes, 56. "It was in the cards," he gulped, but he strode out of court with his chin up. State's Attorney Alcorn broke his 30-year precedent of not commenting on verdicts. Said he: "No Connecticut jury has ever rendered a greater public service...