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...gotten started anyway. Which puts us in an embarrassing position, since we shattered our crystal ball last September after picking the Yankees and Dodgers to win the pennants, with the Indians fourth and the Red Sox second. But still we try again, using this time a burned-out light bulb that happens to be handy...
...table was covered with a G.I. blanket and a strip of white cotton cloth torn from a CARE package; their patient was secured by wires nailed to the side of the table and lifted above her body by wedges of C-ration cans. Their light consisted of one electric bulb and half a dozen flashlights trained upon the incision by Filipino nurses. One nurse was assigned to keep off the insects that swarmed around the light bulb. Four hours after the operation began, a Vietnamese baby boy was born...
...competing schools and Quizmaster Allen Ludden in Manhattan. Ludden, a 37-year-old Phi Beta Kappa from Texas, first throws out a "tossup" question; as soon as a player thinks he knows the answer he signals his referee to push the team's buzzer, which instantly lights a bulb in the Manhattan studio (white for the champion team, red for the challenger) and automatically cuts off the impulse from the other team. If the answer is right, it earns ten points and gives the winners a chance at a bonus question worth from 15 to 50 points...
...created by veteran moviemakers. In Diamond Jubilee of Light, Producer David O. Selznick (Gone With the Wind) had a chance to show what he could do on TV-and it was plenty. Sponsored, but unobtrusively, by U.S. public-utility companies to celebrate Edison's invention of the electric bulb, the two-hour program began a little pompously with a Biblical quotation (naturally -"Let there be light!"). But it soon came down from the clouds with an amusing review of early disasters in the appliance field (e.g., washing machines that shredded dresses; refrigerators with unmovable ice cubes). The filmed portion...
...other conductor had ever caught the error before. Dutifully, Soprano Nelli restudied the passage, but when she was set to record again the red "ready" light failed to come on. The maestro threw down his arms, withdrew pouting to the side of the podium. He frowned at the stubborn bulb, but still no light. Then he reached over with his baton and tapped the bulb. It lit. The baton slashed the air, and the recording went on without a hitch...