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...last week Edward Martin Jr., who is 17 and has trouble getting his scaf-foldy six-foot frame into a skimpy Western Union messenger uniform, got the thrill of his life. Summoned to the private railroad car of the President of the U. S., on a siding in Philadelphia, he was met by Secretary Stephen Early, who gave him a $10 bill, and a plain silver wrist watch, with instructions to get the crystal fixed. On its back was inscribed...
Finally the crew got the bomb out and loaded it on a truck. Lieut. Davies took the wheel and drove his hot burden seven miles to Hackney Marsh and blew it up. Robert Davies is a cool number. Of his hair-raising truck drive he commented: "The biggest thrill was that I had speed cops escorting me and the road was mine...
...local audience had grown rather too used to the idea of TVA to thrill to it again. It cheered, but the effect was not what he achieved later that day. The eleven-car Presidential special took him and his party to Newfound Gap to dedicate the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with a speech on a sterner topic. Fascism...
...with America's Tragic Era, 1865. The Civil War - "Mrs. Stowe's war," Lincoln liked to call it - was won. The great and near-great figures of New England's flowering had been up to their transcendental ears in Abolitionism and underground railroading. But with the thrill of victory came a chill realization that it was not the same country. It was not even quite the same New England. The slave power was gone, but the bankers remained. Most of the young men were dead or gone West. The New England mind recoiled from the consequences...
...smell. Nevertheless, they went to see him, and get a nearer sniff. His small 16th floor suite at a corridor's end in the Benjamin Franklin hotel became a crazy-house, a stifling welter of political amateurs and well-wishers (bond salesmen, debutantes, business bigwigs), gawkers (clubwomen, tourists, thrill-collectors), and disgusted professionals, indignant at their offhand treatment by people who had never heard of them and who even now regarded politicos as casual, unimportant, irrelevant vermin...