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Fortnight ago the selectmen of Marblehead voted to allow a reproduction of that Massachusetts town's pride, Archibald Willard's painting The Spirit of '76, to be made for use in the advertising campaign of a Lynn lamp works (TIME, Aug. 12). One who did not so vote was Town Clerk Richard Pratt, absent on vacation. Back in Marblehead last week Clerk Pratt reassembled the five selectmen, read them a stiff lecture on the step they had taken, reminded them that the last time the town government had authorized reproduction of The Spirit...
...lifted, the selectmen who allowed new color plates to be made were defeated at the next election. It was therefore news indeed last week when the selectmen of Marblehead met and voted to allow Forbes Lithograph Co. of Everett, Mass, to make four-color process plates for a Lynn lamp company's advertising campaign...
...then drawn directly into the combustion chamber. There is no carburetor. The exhaust is almost entirely clear, indicating nearly complete combustion. Although they have no test data to prove it, Solene's sponsors think it will mean fuel economy and increased flying range for airplanes. A wick lamp filled with it burned seven times as long as with kerosene...
...honorary fez of Washington's Almas Temple. That night in a darkened limousine the President sped past the Pavilion of Omar erected on the sidewalk in front of the White House with its papier-maché sphinxes and cardboard columns 52 ft. high, down avenues whose lamp posts had been camouflaged as palm trees to the Union Station where he escaped from a Shriner-ridden city on a Baltimore & Ohio special train. Next morning he stopped at Highland, N. Y., motored across the Hudson to the peaceful quiet of Hyde Park. There he would spend four easy days before...
...upshot of all this, when he gets back to Shanghai, is enough to give pause even to an idealist as confirmed as Stephen Chase. Credit for his lamp has been assigned to one of his superiors. The position which should have been his reward for meritorious service has gone to an incompetent sycophant. A highly improbable transoceanic telephone call, from the president of the company in New York to Stephen's superior in Shanghai, sets things right at the last minute but Director Mervyn LeRoy contrives to make this unnecessary bow to precedent as cynical as possible. Good shot...