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...Florida, starting this week, will turn a blank, darkened face to the sea. The Army announced that shore lights, which have silhouetted many a ship for a submarine's kill, must be dimmed or blacked-out totally. The new Army order will hit amusement parks, boardwalk merchants, seasiders, but the real sufferers will be the real residents of coastal cities, who must grope in darkness for the duration...
...psychiatrists who met last week in Atlantic City. Listening to the impassioned speeches at the American Neurological Association, no layman could doubt that the doctors' hearts were in the right place; but he could not help being surprised at some of their ideas. Over dinner tables, on the boardwalk, in hotel lobbies, strange views cropped up about mental health in Germany-many of them to the effect that sanity is no longer possible in a democracy, that only Totalitaria breeds healthy minds. Some public remarks...
Last week, before the convention opened, they met by chance on the boardwalk. They went to Mr. Hillman's hotel room, where they talked for over an hour. When they came out they were laughing. Peacemakers took hope. Later Lewis gruffed to newsmen: "From the social standpoint it was enjoyed by each of us." Neither would admit he had budged an inch from his position, but both declared loudly there would be no breakup...
...Methodism met at Atlantic City for its first general conference. The 776 delegates and their thousands of camp followers met morning, noon & night, spent small time even on mild amusements, though godly Governor Luren D. Dickinson of Michigan, a delegate for the last 32 years, roller-chaired down the boardwalk with delegates from India and China...
Last week Tuffy escaped; how, no one seems to know. As Thomas Saito, a 37-year-old Japanese auctioneer, was stepping into his car, Tuffy came bounding up the boardwalk, pounced, knocked Saito down, clawed his chest, dragged the inert body 150 feet to a recess under the boardwalk, where he mangled it horribly. Police searched gingerly among the pilings under the walk while members of the volunteer fire department warned people to stay indoors. When police finally sighted Tuffy, they blazed away, slightly wounded him. He disappeared again. Two hours later Patrolman John Gares sighted the lion...