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...Brooklyn Dodgers, that final accounting, however it adds up, could seem like just another statistic. The Dodgers have played their big game. They played it as they should have, at home on Sept. 19, against the molting St. Louis Cardinals. The hero, as he should have been, was a lantern-jawed, beetle-browed pitcher named Don Newcombe...
...thrown into a project; with the help of such research-developed equipment as computers, they can explore in a few weeks problems that would take an unaided worker years. In Detroit, where Henry Ford once puttered with his new car in an old stable, while his wife held the lantern, Chrysler Corp. has 200 scientists and engineers assigned solely to gas-turbine engine development...
Paid in Pink Shells. It was but a beginning. In a cave, the entrance to which was marked by a ship's red lantern, dismayed Captain Overton found many "immoral effigies" of ladies constructed of gourds and coconut shells. They were brightly but lightly dressed in "a set of signal flags." Inside the cave were bucketfuls of pink sea shells. "I made myself pay one [pink shell] every time I went . . .," Bunt explained, hoping that this example of self-control would show that he had tried at least to keep some check on his Buntism...
...Gene and Pat and Dave play in the day-time. Under a three-colored chandelier (which turns on after dark), a man with a guitar strums and moos from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. Two gold-bordered mirrors grace the south wall, and outside, where nobody notices, hangs a lantern which Dave believes once hung in Benjamin Franklin's house...
Sales Pitch. Even where the product was not readily identifiable, salesmen were hard at work as dramatic show after dramatic show peddled the quintessential goodness of man in one well-contrived happy ending after another. On the TV Reader's Digest, a lantern-jawed angel of goodwill named Charlie Faust did for the New York Giants what only Satan could accomplish for the Washington Senators in the Broadway musicomedy Damn Yankees. On Chrysler's Climax!, Betty Furness and Franchot Tone went to the trouble of killing off an expendable playboy on the operating table to bring understanding back...