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27 Worlds Fair Closing

News reports 01 · 1940 · 32 min · 6,510 words

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Tonight, Sunday, October 27, the greatest exposition in the world, the New York World's Fair, comes to an end. Many words to be said, many speeches made, about the dignity and nobility of this fair, about the historic event that took place on its grounds during the last two years, and about the millions of individual attractions which lured visitors from all over the earth.

But when a happy ending comes to anything, it's not customary to sit silently amid memory. And tonight on the fairgrounds, thousands of people are celebrating this last evening in the greatest tradition of carnival holiday, making Mary in the hardest way they nail hollow.

Keeping to this spirit, the members of W.O.R. Special Features Division are tonight going to try to do at the fair the individual things they've always wanted to do, broadcasting a description of it as they do it. Some of these things we should warn you in advance might sound a little bit while. But really there's no harm meant that any misinterpretation is purely coincidental.

But now without further explanation and to show you just what we mean, we're going directly out to the fairgrounds and to our ringleader there, Henry Morgan. Ringleader and freezing. Oh my, why did I ever get into this? I don't know. They sold me a bit of goods, that's all. Ladies and gentlemen, I'll tell you what the thought is as quickly

and as easily as I can before my feet fall out. It's cold, but you're gathered with a mean it cold. We got into the American Jubilee by what is commonly known as Hook, or, and Crook, and we had to use both. We gave the manager a big song and dance and somehow or other we got beyond him and now I've worked my way to where I'm

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