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...Senate committee room last week, the newsreel floodlights beat down for short intervals on the witness chair, snapped off again as the cameramen waited for another shot. In the floods' full glare, strange specimens came sharply into public view, squirmed uncomfortably in the light, waited for the word to drop back into their own shadowy world. It was a world of conspiracy and secrecy, of Communist and informer, where the law was and is Lenin's dictum: it is necessary to "resort to all sorts of schemes and stratagems, employ illegitimate methods, conceal the truth...
...audience was offered last week by Dr. John C. Neill of Philadelphia's Pennsylvania State College of Optometry. Reporting .on a year-long study of TV's effect on the eyes, Dr. Neill concluded that the human eye becomes so light-adapted in the glare of the television screen that it suffers up to a 40% loss in night vision...
Apparently disregarding a warning block signal, apparently blind to the glare of No. lys's approaching headlight, Motorman Jacob Kiefer took No. 192 down the section of double track and roared on into the gantlet. Markin's whistle was a shrill and hopeless warning of the rending crash of steel on steel as the two trains collided...
...just simply wonderful. Wonderful! I always knew that something this big would happen!" burbled bustling Mrs. A. Burks Summers, peering through the smoky, klieg-lighted glare of Washington's Uline Arena at some 12,000 happy Republicans. Senators, Congressmen and plain citizens, they filled every seat, sat cross-legged on the concrete floor, munched the chicken legs of the new "poor man's" Lincoln Day box supper (cost $1), danced to Fred Waring's orchestra, sang with Cinemactor George Murphy, shouted themselves hoarse. Cried G.O.P. Chairman Guy Gabrielson: "From this night on, the Republican Party is going...
...teacher who comes to spend the summer with her sister Stella in New Orleans. She is shocked at the meanness of Stella's home, and the vulgarity of Stella's Polish husband. She calls herself a gentlewoman, and passes as one. Slowly, however, her pretence is discovered. In the glare of a naked electric light bulb, Blanche DuBois is forced to admit that she does not tell the truth, "but what ought to be the truth...