| Show r Z y yr V 11 s teU OaS J Washington Picture Postcards to 1 The visual poetry of the Linco Lincoln r Memorial that warms your spirit I o and finds a home among your memories mem mern as Ie ories ones Modern Federal buildings i pp displaying their best architectural E StO manners overlooking slum areas me ere bruised by poverty Cherry b 11 trees wearing dainty blossoms the squads of b I ra Firing reporters shooting sassy assy queries at public officials during dur r I ring u t ing mg press conferences Ho Homeless Home me Ai less rumors racing from place to e COl place about town The sun wrapping its beauties around the thelong thelong thelong long stone finger of the Washington Monument Lobbyists greeting those who can do them favors as i toil t a though they meant it i U Q cle t The majestic m jestic atmosphere of the tZ tha Supreme Court edifice where people ed converse in soft whispers for fear of ot scratching the varnished silence Nervous fingers of typewriter keys it i t drumming out details of the he t Gov Governments Government's Gov nl business Pretty gals Mr who came to the capital for glamour anc and excitement hemmed in by hard a a p work during the day and surrounded Set kt tJ by loneliness at night I 1 s Legislators who crossed swords i i during public debate ping ping An friendly words in cloakrooms I IThe thE The Capitol Dome whitewashed with e I moonlight the star among the city's e e sights Swanky old mansions e em reeking of history now serving as I ordinary boarding houses for government gov gov- govI I n rea workers our 1 Nerve centers of war agencies sprinkled with lights all night because be g I 1 fi cause war is a hour 24 job J i h Human melling pell-melling through hotel He lobbies The well manicured e 1 among social leaders to di diget d il get important guests The Library Li Li- Lii i he Ie of Congress drenched with 1 KI culture while people in buildings J la ret around it are sweating to protect everything it stands for 1 fell The dressed best-dressed men in town town- town town- jf is Hoovers Hoover's G They are also the hardest punchers and the straightest 1 10 shooters Uppity embassy par par- parI parties I I ties which provide a showcase for good manners and stale gossip j jA A soldier and a girl holding hands handson I Ion on a park bench while a few blocks away decisions are made that will affect their whole future Tots calmly strolling into schools to learn history as it is being made all aU allaround allaround around them Alleged secrets being hushed about j from place to place Most of them j are slices of bunk that start from I S nowhere and end in the same place E The exclamation point excitement excitement excitement excite excite- 1 ment around war agencies where a I decisions are made that affect Americans everywhere today and J e history tomorrow Horn-blowing Horn I motorists in traffic jams giving your j i nerves a toothache j I s st st. 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