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After the reception, the guests adjourned to a $20,000 ballroom-a tent with wood floor-built on the lawn for the occasion. Pink-and-silver silk, matching Betty's gown, hid the ceiling; great chandeliers held masses of pink gladioli. Two 20-piece or chestras (Meyer Davis and Ruby Newman) played chaste, danceable music through the night...
...Young Memorial Museum, his home town got a look at 64 deftly slapdash Dong watercolors. One standout was a gay gull's-eye view of San Francisco's war-crowded harbor (see cut). To get a proper perch to paint it from, Dong pitched a pup tent dizzily atop the Bay Bridge. It was a long way up from the narrow obscurity of San Francisco's Chinatown, where he began...
...redeployment movement was another example of U.S. speed and organization. In France and Italy were many centers where G.I.s are assembled, processed, filtered out to the embarkation camps. Ancient Reims is the hub of an assembly area made up of 18 tent cities named Boston, Brooklyn, Cleveland, New York, San Antonio, St. Louis, Carlisle,†etc. The general idea in redeployment camps: keep morale high with plenty of recreation, shows, liberal leaves, a taste of home in advance. Thus "Boston" has "Tremont Theater." At "Brooklyn" is a home plate from Ebbets Field, a bag of Coney Island sand...
...cooling breeze rustled through the tents and the dusty town. At midnight Private Bertucci climbed a tower, relieved the guard. Below him lay the silent tent-city whose occupants, next morning, would be out in the fields, thinning beets...
...ships of the imperial squadron were heading for the Adriatic port of Brundisium (Brindisi). The largest ship carried vast purple sails; its prow bore a golden lion's head. Lounging in a tent beneath the ornamented rigging was Augustus Octavian Caesar, Emperor of Italy, Gaul and the lands of the Nile. Lying on a pallet in the next ship was the Roman poet Virgil, coughing 'blood and clutching the manuscript of his unfinished masterpiece, The Aeneid...