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...student (sex undeterminable by typewriter printing) remarked, "Spring is here, and the Radcliffe Dorm Presidents are on the prowl with flashlight and memo pad. . . . I think this should be brought to the attention of all Harvard men so that they know the full story when their true love refuses their fondest wish...
...pleading, "Bring back Brooks Atkinson." He also pipe-schemes to send critics only one ticket each, forcing them to leave their wives home, and to fill the seats next to them with well-proportioned starlets. But, he says, he will sit next to Taubman himself, helpfully holding a flashlight for note taking...
...reply. "I'm going to die anyway." A few hours later, Brigrrte Bardot made an apparently serious-and heavily headlined -attempt to die. In the garden of a friend's pink villa, a vineyard keeper found Brigitte unconscious beside a well. In the beam of his flashlight he saw Brigitte: "Her eyes were closed, her teeth slightly parted, and her arms were red with blood." It was her 26th birthday-and it ended up in a neurological clinic in Nice, where the diagnosis was barbiturate poisoning, plus slight wrist lacerations. Brigitte's periodically estranged husband, Cinemactor Jacques...
...pocket-size portable record player. Put on sale by Emerson, the Wondergram plays all sizes of LP records without turntable, is powered by four flashlight batteries, weighs less than 2 Ibs. Price...
...transistor grew out of a "parlor trick" in Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1940. One of the scientists there "had a little chunk of black stuff with a couple of contacts on it," recalls Bell Physicist Walter H. Brattain, "and when he shone a flashlight on it, he got a voltage. I didn't believe it." But Brattain never forgot, and seven years later (a delay enforced by the war), using the same "black stuff"-silicon-in an electrolytic solution, he got the same effect: a current was produced ten times as great as that from any other photoelectric device...