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...first suspicions of sabotage, Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, commandant of the Third Naval District, made blunt reply. Said he: "The fire started . . . when a civilian worker . . . was using ah acetylene torch to remove an ornamental lamp from the salon wall. A spark from his torch apparently leaped into a pile of life preservers...
When asked if a reserve store of sugar had been built up to cover emergencies, Durant said, "We don't heard at Harvard." Robert C. Benchley, Jr. '43, President of the Lampoon, announced that the Lamp "would raise cain" to alleviate any sugar shortage...
...forgotten, last week got a new businessman to head up its industry branches: young (42), dark, movie-handsome Philip Reed, chairman of General Electric. Engineer-Lawyer Reed took only 14 years to go from G.E.'s lamp division to the shoes of Owen Young. Milwaukee-born, he got his engineering degree from Wisconsin (1921), his law degree (1924) at Fordham night school, while he clerked at Manhattan's patent law firm Pennie, Davis, Marvin & Edmonds. He got to G.E. via Van Heusen Products (collars) where he had handled some nasty patent problems, and to get there he foresightedly...
...Silvered-glass reflectors are replacing polished aluminum in street lamps now being manufactured, not only conserving the more useful metal but increasing the lamp's efficiency...
Died. Dr. Hermann Walther Nernst, 77, inventor of the Nernst metallic filament lamp, link between the carbon lamp and the modern incandescent lamp; in Muskau, Germany...