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...could drive steel like John Henry I'd go home, Baby, I'd go home. And later: This old hammer killed John Henry. Can't kill me, Baby, can't kill me. Torchlight processions of Republicans in the summer and fall of 1860 sang "Old Abe Lincoln Came Out of the Wilderness": Old Abe Lincoln came out of the Wilderness, Old Abe Lincoln came out of the Wilderness, Old Abe Lincoln came out of the Wilderness, Down in Illinois. "Man Goin' Roun' " came from Columbia, S. C. A homely, black woman sang it: There...
...Quinn--or Shea or Russell or Robart--for Mayor" replaces "I do not choose to run in 1928" as the up-to-date decoration of local automobiles. Torchlight parades give the Square a ghoulish light, as hundreds of horns send their echoes across the Yard. Earnest students in Widener scowl, and wonder vaguely what it is all about. It is the first Cambridge political campaign in many years that has caused them to speculate...
...many members of the Harvard Faculty--will go to the polls to select two of the sterling quartet, who will compete in the final election in November. Indications now point to the choice of Quinn and Russell at the primaries. That at least will mean a cessation of Robart torchlight parades, and of processions of small children chanting "Yea, yea, we want Shea!" Harvard Square will lapse into its customary quiet non-political atmosphere, and only the Faculty and the local students who have assumed the heavy burden of citizenship will lie awake worrying, worrying...
...political observers maintain that motives political as well as personal have dictated the President's proposed Western excursion. In 1870 a torchlight procession smoked down Pennsylvania Avenue, besought President Grant to have built a permanent Western White House somewhere west of the Mississippi. At the last session of Congress, Representative Dickinson of Iowa resurrected the proposal. Official Washington, including the President, is said to frown on the Western White House idea as needlessly expensive...
...butterfly torchlight procession...