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Opening a series of five lectures on "Music in the American Scene," Aaron Copland, visiting lecturer on Music on the Horatio Appleton Lamp Fund, discussed "New Phases: Cross-Section, 1944" on Wednesday evening...
...Vesuvian Royal Observatory and foremost authority on the volcano, clung to his tiny workshop halfway up the mountain. Through four days & nights he scarcely ate, barely slept or washed. Alone he crept to the boiling crater's edge, closely charted the lava flow, checked his seismograph by kerosene lamp...
...lights, actually, do not bother the players. The illumination with modern equipment is so good that a man reading a newspaper on the field would find himself supplied with ten times as much light as he would get from an ordinary reading lamp. If otherwise distributed, the lamps in the clusters atop the lofty towers would light a 447-mile highway. The 615 lamps in the Brooklyn ball park, for example, furnish the equivalent of 92 million candlepower. The cost of operation is approximately the same as it would be for lighting 1,500 homes for the same length...
...back under the eye of British colonial officers (TIME, Dec. 13), some volunteered for labor battalions run by the British as reciprocal aid to U.S. forces. Others dug new babai pits, rebuilt palm-frond huts, hauled in fish beyond the coral reefs. At night, whenever they could borrow a lamp from British resident officers, they danced on the pebbled floors of their spacious, thatched meetinghouses...
...Greenback ticket, he got 82,000 votes. But he was one of the most wonderful grandfathers who ever lived. His prosperous glue (and gelatin) factory, at Madison Avenue and sist Street in Manhattan, would have made him a fortune even if he had not invented the mercury vapor lamp, built the first American steam locomotive, or helped finance the Atlantic cable. His long white hair reached almost to his shoulders. He shaved himself with a razor used by George Washington. He wore a black frock coat, a black stock about his neck and, when he went visiting...