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...celebrated the homecoming of Douglas Gorce Corrigan, who few months before left a workaday mechanic's job to flivver off into the sky, blarneyed his way to Dublin and back and became the most fabulous escapist of his time. Back down from the sky, he came, after a triumphal tour of 44 cheering cities, looking as modest as Lindbergh, when he stepped out of his little ship at Glendale airport...
Japanese newsorgans, paced by the potent Tokyo Nichi Nichi and Osaka Mainichi, last week made ready to cover the long-awaited fall of Hankow. Some 500 newsmen, photographers and broadcasters, specially equipped with airplane radio transmitters, were poised behind the front to record the triumphal entrance of Japanese troops. Confident Japanese commanders gave out that this would take place before October...
This striking decision was announced at Moscow with dramatic display. The official press declared that on July 1 twelve wood-burners driven by Soviet crews exclusively female started out on a triumphal 7,000-mile test run which included a run through the Ural Mountains and was completed last week "with no accidents and no serious breakdowns." Foreign correspondents turned out to count the trucks as they were driven by their pretty crews through cheering crowds. They counted seven wood-burners which actually crossed the finish line out of the original twelve...
...week-long festivities: the largest military review The Netherlands has ever seen, witnessed by the Queen (one of her favorite royal duties) : a commemorative service in Amsterdam's very old Nieuwe Kerk (New Church), where the Queen was crowned in 1898; a march past the Royal Palace, through triumphal arches laden with orange roses, by 10,000 gaudily garbed delegates from-Her Majesty's 8,500,000 subjects at home, her 60,000,000 subjects scattered through The Netherlands Indies...
Even ardent Verdians are apt to titter when, in the lush triumphal scene of Aïda, a gaudily festooned white horse clatters on the boards of the stage. But to Anna, the mare which for almost 25 years has appeared at the Metropolitan in Aïda, that scene is serious stuff. In her younger days Anna also acted in Ben Hur and The Sheik. Last week, Anna, 36 years old, had a birthday party fit for a queen...