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...voice of evil," personified in a badly played scene by a talkative bar fly. He comes home drunk and shocks his son into running away. But after remorse sets in, he regains his son and his faith in time for a happy ending: with the family wreathed in a glow of good will as the second baby arrives, and the world's churches filled to overflowing, the Voice is still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 10, 1950 | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

...Pilot Robert C. Lind climbed westward away from Manhattan, the moon turned pale and then went out behind thick clouds. Three hours later, after he had crossed blackened Lake Erie and passed the lights of Detroit, he could see the flickering glow of lightning ahead on the horizon, the cold front the weather maps had predicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: A Flash Like Lightning | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...catalyst) is responsible for the firefly's strange cold, yellow-green light. Not much is known about its complex chemistry but Dr. Strehler points out an extraordinary fact. The light that comes from luciferin has been analyzed spectroscopically and turns out to be very similar to the fluorescent glow given off by riboflavin (vitamin B2) when it is irradiated with invisible ultraviolet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light & Life | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

Hawii's vast Mauna Loa erupts about once every three years, but this time was different. At 9:20 p.m., clouds over the 13,675-ft. peak parted to uncover a glow seen 200 miles away. Not from the crater, where it usually erupts, but out of the southwest flank of the mountain melted rock burst and shot 300 ft. up; steam shot higher to 20,000 ft., striking a passing plane. Through two other vents in the slope, streams of glowing lava oozed out, surged 25 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: A Red-Orange Glow | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...cheap ($4 to $6) novelty shoes. If all goes well, the Trieste Shoe Co. will employ 400 people, and let out piecework to some 2,000 others. Most of the production will go to the U.S. market. "It's a Utopian situation," says Albert Saitz, with a happy glow. "The natives are happy, Italy gets dollars, and we get a chance to make a profit." And Saitz's in-laws, who will soon have most of their debts paid up with the Government money, are happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Is Everybody Happy? | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

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