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...LAMP FOR NIGHTFALL (211 pp)-Erskine Caldwell-Duell, Sloan & Pearce-Little, Brown...
...Lamp for Nightfall, he un-limbers the old routine in a Maine setting. This time it is the old Yankee stock that is going to pot, steadily losing ground to the more vital "Canucks" and "square-heads." Take the Emerson family, Author Caldwell's prime exhibit: Thede Emerson. richest man in Clearwater, has $200,000 in the bauk, but will he let his son Howard go off to college in Boston? No, he keeps him at home doing chores so he won't have to get a hired man. Thede hates the French Canadians, but he is letting...
...Brattle Street were driven out into the cold just before midnight last night by a small fire in a second floor room. The fire damaged floors and ceilings to the extent of about $75, according to police estimates. Cause of the fire was a short circuit in a floor lamp...
...first rolling mill, the first differential gear, the first picture projector. His studies in anatomy, hydraulics, mechanics, optics carried him centuries ahead of his day. Even his amusements made history: he invented a musical instrument that anticipated the harpsichord; he improved the printing press, rigged a style of oil lamp that was used until the 19th century, wrestled with ideas for human flight, and built an ineffectual airplane with flapping wings...
...emerald's 'grass-lamp glow' is better...