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Show WHAT MOVIES MEAN TO THE AVERAGE AMERICAN BOY Merc is what they mean to "Andy," 16-year-pld .".typical moviegoer" movie-goer" in ..Tne World Is Ours": At 16 years old Andy never set foot outside of his state, yet he hos been all over the world. He was an eye-witness at Custer's last stand. He stood beside Napoleon at Waterloo. ' He charged with the "Light Brigade" at Balaclava. He saw the Bastille fall and found out why it fell. He has seen a thousand Moslems kneel toward their Mecca at sundown. He has watched with reverence a Eucharistic Congress. Why, Andy stood be3ide Byrd at the South Pole. And he has traded horses with Will Rogers in Old Kentucky. He knows the shock and peril of an earthquake. The fury and the anger of a gale at sea. The menace in the roar of an avalanche. And he knows the peace and quiet of a lamasary in Tibet. Great men of all time are his friends Pasteur, first of the microbe hunters. He saw Andy Jackson win the Battle of New Orleans. He saw Washington found the world's first democracy, and he understood Lincoln's sorrows as he fought to save it. - Through the magic of the motion picture,- this toy watched his forefathers struggle for three heroic months to reach California, ana has flown the same distance in a modern transport plane in 14 nours, .. .. |