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...pubs were running out of beer. But the cold wave brought far more serious hardships and economic dangers to Britain. Trains and trucks stood idle, schools and factories had to shut down as the coal shortage shut off heat and electric power. Office workers strained their eyes by candlelight. Water mains and pipes broke everywhere (since Britons stubbornly cling to the illusion that their winters are never very cold, water mains are not buried deep enough and many homes have rickety, poorly insulated "afterthought" plumbing, laid along outside walls). London's News Chronicle carried a cartoon depicting two Englishmen...
...screen of television's future is not wholly dark: 1) a new, supersensitive pickup tube, four to five times brighter than its predecessor, makes candlelight do the job of a battery of floodlights; 2) construction of 44 new stations is expected to begin after FCC gives its ruling; 3) the Radio Manufacturing Association says that the U.S. is ready to build from 330,000 to 360,000 television sets...
Steaks & Rubdowns. It was a back-breaking job, but so far no one showed signs of cracking. Caterers brought meals in to the offices of both papers. At the Record, steaks, chops and plentiful desserts were served on linen-spread tables gleaming in candlelight. Each day masseurs came in to rub down Stern's high-priced, nonstop help. In Philadelphia the men managed to get home each night, but in Camden the Courier-Post crew slept in cots set up beside their desks, seldom saw their families. At week's end Saylor rasped: "There's nobody here...
Every night at 10 o'clock, the Shoalers hold a candlelight service in the spirit of their hymn...
...what people were wearing in America. ... It ... might have been Paris, or London, or New York - any place where you find those inter nationals who are still interested in inter national fashion, gossip and an international way of life. The setting was beautiful. Shining silver, crystal, well-groomed footmen, candlelight, soft music. The women were dressed with taste, with charm...