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...echoing train shed behind the grimy Greek façade of London's Euston Station, Driver Ambrose Grant climbed into the cab of locomotive Number 5508. The bells of London joined the shrilling of train whistles to welcome a new year. Guard Arthur Smith switched his lamp from red to green, waved the "go ahead" to Driver Grant, and swung into the guard's van. At two minutes past midnight, Number 5508 chuffed out of the station for the run to Crewe. It pulled the first nationalized train to leave London...
...later, the 1,000th paper (the Portsmouth, N.H. Herald) was taking James Robert Williams'* Out Our Way. His homely handiwork was the biggest drawing card on N.E.A.'s list. His panels (single pictures) tell an anecdote but no continued stories. Like the soft light of a kerosene lamp, they light up, with humor and understanding, the quiet corners of everyday life that are passed over by the searchlights of the news. The runny-nosed children and distracted parents of "Born Thirty Years Too Soon," "The Worry Wart" and "Why Mothers Get Gray" are gently comic memories of many...
...novel. When three-quarters of the book was finished, he was recalled to New Mexico. Wallace worked on Ben-Hur in the governor's mansion at Santa Fe, an old building with grime-covered walls, rain-stained cedar rafters, a dark, low ceiling. His wife feared that the lamp burning in the window made him a target for Billy the Kid's bullets-the Kid had now turned against...
Rallying to the rescue of shopping-silly Radcliffe and Wellesley maidens of fifty years ago. The Ladies' Home Journal of December, 1897, suggested that they buy or make for their men friends 'crocheted lamp shades, a sponge bag, or a crimson flannel banjo case...
...Camille Bombois is one of Paris' best-selling "primitive" (self-taught) painters. He lives with his wife and their canary in a cosily cluttered little house on the Rue Emile-Desvaux, painting steadily and tidily far into the night, by the light of a big electric lamp. Sometimes he takes a day off to explore the countryside around Paris, armed with a camera. Most of his pictures, including the nudes, are painted from photographs. "I can't be bothered with models," says Bombois, "and anyway my studio is too small for that kind of business...