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...scarlet robe and black plush cap of an Oxford doctor, he stumped into Dr. McCluer's living room, tired but happy. A photographer's bulb exploded. "There must be a Russian in the house," he grinned. His valet slipped him a slug of brandy to reinforce him. Then Winston Churchill stood in the reception line...
Western Union calls its lamp a "concentrated arc." Inside a small glass bulb filled with argon gas are two electrodes. On one is a tiny speck of zirconium oxide. When the current flows, this turns to molten zirconium metal, glows ten times as brightly for its area as the brightest tungsten filament...
Just for a Laugh. In Green River, Wyo., a train-traveling sailor, asked why he had swallowed a mouse, a light bulb, two razor blades, explained: he wanted to amuse his fellow passengers...
...inch water glass, a 40-watt light bulb, a snuff box, a fish hook, ink bottles, a lemon, an apple, ox horns, chicken bones, a frozen pig's tail, a cold cream jar, whiskey glasses, an iron...
Died. George J. ("Slim") Summerville, 51, bulb-nosed, sleepy-eyed, under-chinned veteran comedian who began as a pie-throwing Keystone Kop in Mack Sennett slapstick; of a stroke; in Laguna Beach, Calif...