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23rd. Got down to New Haven Saturday morning in three hours ten minutes. A weather eye for blue uniforms in dark Fords on the way but no mishap. Ten thousand men of Harvard cluttering the lobby of the Taft. Steering my love through the swirl and, just for fun, the open-air trolley out to the Bowl. Gulping excitement before the game that lasted till Yale's second score and then died into despair but came bounding back again with the second-half surge. My voice gone midway the third period, creaking come on, come on, come on, come...
...logorrheic swirl of speeches, talks, statements, challenges and replies Republican Nominee Alf Landon thrust halfway across the continent and all the way back from coast to coast last week on the last lap of what he calls "this battle to save our American System of Government...
...gone far on its 570-page way before the rails begin to appear. Its scene opens among the Petersburg intelligentsia, gradually broadens to include engineers, workers, peasants, revolutionaries. All around the horizon the skies are darkening; as the atmosphere thickens and the wind rises, these rootless figures swirl in ever madder gyrations. Everyone hails the Revolution as the beginning of a new era, but for many it is the dawn of their last day. Though, like all well-behaved Soviet novels, Darkness and Dawn seeks safety in numbers from the bourgeois bugaboo of a "hero," from its scores of principal...
Into a beet field just off the racing course at Santa Ana, Calif, one day last week dived a big metal airplane in a swirl of black smoke. Plunking its belly down on the soft earth it suffered no more damage than a crumpled landing gear, dented fuselage, broken propeller. Cursing darkly, a handsome young man jumped out unscratchcd after having made the fastest flight in the history of landplanes...
Amid a great swirl of dust little Lindsborg (pop. 2,016) became once again last week the most vital music centre in Kansas. From eleven States visitors poured into the town, fairly fought for parking space. The attraction was Lindsborg's longtime specialty: Handel's Messiah, performed by 500 local choristers, most of them farmers, storekeepers, mechanics, housewives, cooks...