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Although the Eastern Seacoast under-went a war-time dim-out last night which will probably be in effect for the duration, the University will only be mildly affected by the anti-glare campaign, chief air warden, Aldrich Durant announced yesterday...
...Navy Court allowed that if any possible blame could possibly be put on Navy men, it belonged, not to brass hats, but to two men far down the line-two lieutenant commanders upon whom Secretary Knox, in an accompanying letter, turned his sternest glare...
...termed my group the Red soldiers. Harry was a soldier in what I called the Rainbow Division, evidently founded by the color-loving Joseph during his stay with the Pharaohs. His tunic was a thing of radiant beauty if viewed from after, and his helmet shimmered in the African glare of the kleig lights. Bung was a nobody, a gray sort of individual with no color at all in his makeup. We sneered at him as a useless character, but he was to get his revenge...
Carpentered by NBC scripters from the official warden's handbook, last week's program was produced with elaborate stage sets in NBC's glare-lit, gadget-hedged television studios. It took a typical warden in & out of brownstones and apartment houses, into a blacked-out street ("Get off the streets, Miss. ... If you can get home in five minutes, do so.") It was repeated six times a day for three days. From the number of pupils in attendance, police figured that in six weeks 54,000 wardens should know their stuff...
...dancer on the Pantages circuit, cruised over Lake Washington. In the immense structural shop at the Charleston Navy Yard the work went on: the steel plates rumbled through the press rolls in surging roars, the hydraulic presses crunched down, the giant shears clamped through metal, the brilliant blue glare from the arc welders shot up through the steeple-high cranes that crawled overhead. There the men with boilermakers' ears said things to each other that involved no questions about the fleet...