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...their delight Travelers Binstead and Proud learned that the fifth match of the series was not yet over, that Batsman Bradman had just finished rolling up the impressive score of 169 runs. This helped swell Australia's first innings score to 604. England, which had won the first two matches at Brisbane and Sydney and lost the next two at Melbourne and Adelaide, had made only 239 runs in its first innings. It was now faced with the task of getting at least 365 runs in the second to make it necessary for Australia to bat again. England...
Many times heralded as one of the best photographs of the year is this actively impressionistic photograph of Bandleader Cab Calloway by Bert Longworth. It is reprinted here by special permission of the editors of U. S. Camera 1936. He'd make a swell interference runner Giant Neil Simpson and Gerald Kagel, coaches the South Dakota School of Mines 1037 graduates shake hands with Tyramusruns Rex, a reptile what the Redlands 40,000,000 years ago and is now a resident of the WPA's Dinosaur Park near Sioux Falls...
Power was thoroughly gone over by TVA officials and Federal Power Commissioners during its preparation. Senator Norris, TVA's father, said he would be on hand for the premiere, but remained in Washington. Harry Hopkins arrived, went backstage afterward to declare: "It was a swell show and I appreciate the work you are doing. I wish I could take it over the country during the next two weeks...
Music arose with its vuluptuous swell...
...more than 50 new judges to duplicate those who are now 70 and have been ten years on the bench. Not stated by the President to the press, and in the draft bill masterfully underemphasized, was the specific, final, crucial point of the entire performance: a proposal to swell the Supreme Court-should septuagenarians decline to retire-from nine to 15 members, an increase of two Justices larger than the confirmed anti-New Deal element of the present Court...