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Hannah Dorner's communique does not state expressly whether or not those taking charge will be able to put up additional names. In the event that this is possible, it is reliably reported that local potentates will consider the addition of Margaret Toth ocC, local lady of the lamp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Included in New Poll To Pick Best American Blonde | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...instance in the current issue there is quite a piece about a piano player named Raymond Scott, who has recorded, among others. Powerhouse, Toy Trumpet, Reckless Night Aboard an Ocean Liner. Also about another musician who will make Merry Widow on a Spree, Dizzy Debutante, Lullaby to a Lamp Post, Ode to an Old Coat Sleeve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 10, 1937 | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...committee was named to investigate and assess the value of such property as was damaged. Several men were seen carefully inspecting the lamp posts to see if any paint had been scratched off. They finally gave up and searched for damage to the grass on Cambridge Common from foot prints. The only prints that were heavy enough to be identified were those of horses and City police officers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Hall Awaits Bill From City As Cops Go to Get Money's Worth | 5/6/1937 | See Source »

...devotee of deep-sea fishing, she also enjoys making ungentlemanly motorists climb lamp-posts and drives a heavy Packard expressly for that purpose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Torch Singer Enjoys Life, Finds Hub Pleasant and Likes Harvard Wolves | 5/1/1937 | See Source »

...firefly's light does not know how Electrophorus becomes electric. Two years ago Christopher Coates, the New York Aquarium's inquisitive tropical fishman, slipped an electric eel into a hard-rubber trough with metallic contacts an inch apart, discovered that it could light a neon lamp. That stunt became the Aquarium's No. 1 attraction, with three performances daily. Branching his eel out into the field of ceremonial keypushers, he had it supply the initial impulse to start a police siren, a North River fireboat, an airplane; light a 2,000,000-candlepower beacon in Radio City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Electric Eel | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

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