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...former doughboys to the sights of Paris. And immediately those sights began to take on colorful decorations. From base to summit the Eiffel Tower would be a blaze of electric lights. And forthwith the Champs Elysees began to erect two chains of bulbs, six inches apart, from the Arc de Triomphe clear down to the Place de la Concorde. Far more than 100,000 extra electric lights will be used in la ville de lumiere on this occa-sion?perhaps the most brilliant occasion of modern Paris...
...which airmen have seen 150 miles away, through 40 miles of rain. The new light in Virginia is five times as large and bright as this biggest and brightest light in Illinois. When 17,200 watts of current are turned on, the crater of the new light's arc becomes the hottest spot on earth-38,000° Fahrenheit. Quartz prisms in the 62-inch globe absorb so much of this heat that the light, passing off with an intensity of 1,385,000,000 candle power,* will not blister the skin of persons keeping more than...
...amiss in your magazine. I believe, as I am sure many others of your readers believe, that we buy TIME primarily and principally for the news it gives us, in the way it is given to us, and not for amusement. If Reader Maloire wants humor, there arc plenty of magazines which devote themselves in part, or in whole, to humor. Let him read the humor magazines and leave our newsmagazine as it now is. Wishing you continued success on the path to "The Better Way of Giving People the Important News...
...grotto Ludwig made an unmitigated curse. He thought, or pretended to think, that the lighting never exactly reproduced the marvelous tint of blue for which the grotto of Capri is famed. Lights of every sort were tried. Finally enormous arc lights were installed, and in the confined space of the grotto workmen tending them were almost roasted. A courtier protested. "Stop!" commanded King Ludwig, "I don't wish to know how the light is made, I only care to see the effect. It is not right...
...Ernest's remarkable propensity for inventing fictions that his uncle, personifying the credulous cruelty of the early 17th Century, supposes the youth to be inhabited by evil powers. The child is clapped into a dungeon, made to watch his erratically lovely mother undergo tortures, urged like Joan of Arc to confess sins of whose existence he is unaware. The triumph of youth is achieved when thousands of children who have listened to his stories with love and wonder flock to prevent his execution...