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...downstairs bar, a 16-year-old busboy stood on a bench to replace a light bulb that a prankish customer had removed. He lit a match. It touched one of the artificial palm trees that gave the Cocoanut Grove its atmosphere; a few flames shot up. A girl named Joyce Spector sauntered toward the checkroom because she was worried about her new fur coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Boston's Worst | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

Executive Secretary John J. Kearney of the Bartenders and Waiters Union testified that the night club patron blamed indirectly for the holocaust was a sailor who unscrewed a light bulb to darkon a corner so he could "mug" his girl friend...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 12/2/1942 | See Source »

...could bathe themselves and get around. They began to like it. "We're all taking flit guns of that stuff back to duty," said a discharged sailor as he packed his bag last week. Dr. Pendleton now has invented a small heater, powered by a 25-watt light bulb, to melt the wax and make it available quickly in ships' turrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Burns at Mare Island | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

Food. In Dover, Ohio, a goat chewed the $5 Federal stamp off Levi Weaver's windshield. In Nahunta, Ga., a schoolteacher's horse nibbled a dangling light bulb, was electrocuted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 17, 1942 | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

...Bulb-nose again: "Because home always assumes a degree of exaggerated glamor when you're away from it. You can at least keep your illusions much better if you never go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Great Books at Camp | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

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