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...that foreigners had appeared and quite a good size crowd quickly collected around the door. I shall never forget the scene. Numerous relatives of all ages were sitting around on the floor, which was covered with matting that was immaculately clean. In the dim light of some sort of lamp it was possible to see the bereaved mother sitting in the middle of the assembly holding a small child. She seemed almost in a stupor. All the relatives leaned forward to see what it was all about. When they realized that I, a foreigner, had brought the widow money...
Each day the Bombay Chronicle ran a picture of a lamp flame. Each day the flame was smaller. It was the only way that censorship could be circumvented on the most dramatic political story since Mohandas K. Gandhi's Congress party was suppressed last August. The flame symbolized the waning strength of bearded, mystical Professor J. P. Bhansali, Gandhi's close and devoted follower, during a 61-day hunger strike...
Gordon's unit consists of plastic envelopes of assorted sizes and a lightweight portable black light lamp which can be placed on the navigator's table or worn like a miner's lamp. The envelopes are made of orange-red fluorescent-treated transparent plastic. The lamp may be the four-watt, 24-28-volt black light already standard with both the Army & Navy. When the lamp is held five inches above an envelope, the latter's fluorescent surface steps up the short ultraviolet waves enough to make them visible, not enough to destroy eye adaptation...
Veronika banked the pechka and set to work making gloves for the Red Army. Her factory had been bombed and she worked at home. By midmorning it grew light and she blew out the lamp. It grew warmer, too, and she could no longer see her breath as she stitched quickly, trying to keep up with the new high norms. In past years there had been a New Year's fir tree and presents for the children...
...take his work too seriously. The tale pokes fun at itself and slyly cuckolds the Hays office. In Nights there is a tubby old boy who claims to have been "the Bag of Bagdad." There is an Aladdin (John Qualen) whose companions jeer: "You've told that lamp story so often you believe it yourself." There is a Sinbad (Shemp Howard) whose refrain is: "This calls to mind an experience I once had as a sailor." And there is a harem which does bumps and grinds and makes the standard Hollywood harem look as well clad as a winter...