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Wrote Laurence, of the deathly bloom that rose from Nagasaki: "A giant ball of fire rose as though from the bowels of the earth . . . [then] a giant pillar of purple fire, 10,000 feet high, shooting skyward. ... At one stage [it] assumed the form of a giant square totem po'le, with its base about three miles long. Its bottom was brown, its center was amber, its top white. . . . Then, just when it appeared as though the thing had settled down, there came shooting out of the top a giant mushroom that increased the height of the pillar...
Reconversion. In Los Angeles, discharged Machine-Gunner Alvin D. Bloom patented a postwar peashooter with adjustable sights...
Said La Bine: "As I looked over the shore, I noticed a great wall there was stained with cobalt bloom. . . . Following along, I found tiny dark pieces of ore probably the size of plums. Looking more closely, I found the vein. I chipped it with my hammer, and here it was pitch blende." At that time, pitchblende was famed as a source of radium. Neither La Bine nor anyone else could then guess the greater significance of his find...
...about 1,500 letters a day). Mindful of his Presidential chances, the Republican Party helped him answer it. Ailing Representative Charles Aubrey Eaton contributed the strongest anti-Russian feeling, and Dean Virginia Gildersleeve brought the best of intentions. Neither of these commodities was scarce at San Francisco. Representative Sol Bloom was also present...
...Director Vincente Minnelli's talents are so many-sided and generous that he turns even the most over-contrived romanticism into something memorable. He has brought the budding dramatic talents of his betrothed, Judy Garland, into unmistakable bloom. He has helped give Robert Walker an honest, touching dignity in place of the shucks-fellers cuteness he has sometimes seemed doomed to. It is Director Minnelli who gives a passage like the silent breakfast scene its radiance. He has used most of his bit players and extras and crowds and streets so well that time & again you wonder whether some...