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Gleam. In Springfield, Ill., Policeman George Ford was bothered by bees swarming at the busiest corner in town. Then a young woman gave him her mirror and a method. He sent a flash into the swarm, swung it to a nearby wall. The bees followed the gleam...
...shots-90% from newsreels and confiscated enemy films-rise to levels of tragic poetry (a drum-deafened sequence of hordes of marching Axis children, youths, men in uniform, and the dazed faces of their elders) and pity and terror (a shrill, doomed maggot-swarm of naked, newborn, state-ticketed Axis babies). There is some effort-there might well have been more-to demonstrate the United Nations' shameful failure to realize the intimate connection between their fate and that of a ravaged Manchurian hut in 1931. There is also a 1939 newsreel, a poll of man-in-the-street views...
Some 1,500 devotees thronged to hear it from all over northern California, from Los Angeles, even from the East. They raised the roof-but in a solid manner: they were no mere swarm of jitterbugs buzzing before the latest of the many swing band sensations. They were mostly seasoned jazz tasters who had gathered to sample vintage New Orleans music produced by a group of the Negroes who had been in that city when jazz was young...
...with drums and fife abeat and asqueal. They were followed by rank on rank of portly male and female Delegates, all dressed like Grand Marshal Fish, all on similar white horses, each flaunting a khaki banner blazoned with four silver stars. The rear was brought up by a swarm of lovable little Mugwumps, ringing cowbells and whirling clackers. The galleries were a mass of waving U.S. flags, a dozen bands were playing, and now, even above the roar, Senator Vandenberg could plainly make out the tune. It was: There's Something about a Soldier...
...assume his title. Famed for their 1909 "Minority Report" on British poor laws and for their subsequent crusade (backed by Winston Churchill) to prevent public destitution, the gradualist Webbs spent their lives investigating and reporting. Bernard Shaw called them "walking encyclopedias." In 1932 and 1934 they and their inevitable swarm of secretary-researchers visited Russia, gathered the data for their notable Soviet Communism: A New Civilization...