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...same Fair that had flopped financially last year. This time it was managed, not by glorious, gardeniaed Director Grover Whalen, but by Manhattan Banker Harvey Dow Gibson. Installed by the bondholders (issues outstanding: $23,000,000) to reduce or wipe out the Whalen deficit, Harvey Gibson did not attempt to remake the fabulous panorama on Flushing Meadows. He simply changed its atmosphere, discarding the austere conception of a World of Tomorrow, promising in its stead "a welcome as sincere and friendly as that of the old-fashioned county fair." Chummy, folksy releases cascaded from the offices of Leo Casey...
...series of talks and symposiums on controversial subjects by prominent alumni are scheduled for the "greatest national mobilization since the Tercentenary," which will be capped by a full day devoted exclusively to viewing Grover Whalen's Fair on Sunday...
...Grover Whalen wanted Curley to do an English country dance on the Magna Charta at the New York World's Fair. Lepidopterists marveled at Curley's maxillae. People began selling Curley balloons, spaghetti, dolls, toys, picture books. The D. A. R. and the American Legion sent Curley a silver-plated twig and a miniature American flag. When a cinema short on Curley was released, during a time of blizzards and rainstorms, Variety headlined: BLIZ AND DRIZ FAIL TO FIZZLE BIZ AS BUG WOWS B. 0. [box office] FROM N. Y. TO L. A. Walt Disney gave...
From Lisbon, Portugal, World's Fairer Grover Whalen embarked for the U. S. after a three-month European tour to shore up his next year's show with foreign expositionists. Said Salesman Whalen: "My visit was satisfactory. I believe I can say all countries I visited will reopen their pavilions at the World's Fair, as well as Poland and Czecho-Slovakia...
...British journals which are read in France; but they cannot be transmitted to any neutral country. Telegrams and cables, no matter where they originate, are censored. A suspicious wire from Amsterdam to the Paris office of the New York Times had its first three lines deleted. They read: "Grover Whalen arrived at The Hague from Brussels and says he is satisfied with the results of his talks in Switzerland, France and Rome...