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Now slowly, very slowly, the famous New
York Skyline comes through the mist. At first
it looks like one of those scenes in stenciled
cardboard fashionable in the London theater
just after the war. Here I have the same
experience as Mr. Bergeret's little dog,
Riquet: 'As I approach an object I grow less'.
Soon the spectacle becomes overwhelmingly
grand: I am now no size at all.
James Agate, My American Journey, 1938"The greatest display of all was New York
City Itself, with its 7,454,995 inhabitants."
One of Mayor La Guardia's opening remarks.The long wait for the President was a bit hard
on Commissioner Valentine's valiants. With
nothing to eat since 6 A.M. A 200-pounder
in the line keeping fairgoers out of a closed
area, stared at a little boy wandering by" if he
wasn't with his old man," he said to a fellow
policeman " I'd hijack his apple on a stick"A thing like a Fair. Go to one at night, and
stand a little way off from it, in a dark place,
under dark trees. You'll see a big wheel made
of lights, turning in the air, and a long stair
shoots down into water, a band playing
somewhere, and a smell of peanuts, and
everything will twinkle. It will all just hang out
there in the night, like a colored balloon, like
a big yellow lantern on a pole.
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