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Permission was given, and Dr. Baker used the analogy, along with a lantern slide of TIME'S cover picture of Oilman Jacobsen...
...somehow he finds the energy to walk a steady ten to 20 miles a day. When he is on the road, he and his disciples get up in some sleeping village at 3 a.m. There is a patter of handclaps, a tinkling bell, the flash of a kerosene lantern, the shuffling of sandals in the dust, and the little group departs for the next village, singing hymns. When he is not on the road, Vinoba gets up an hour later and meditates for an hour. At 5, he has his first cup of milk, swishing each mouthful exactly eight times...
...flush of high water and goodly bags of 15-inchers. Michigan fishermen were out by the thousands, dropping night crawlers, minnows and plugs into the cold water. Some Michigan devotees, in non-trout waters, were taking so-called "rough fish," e.g., carp and suckers, by an ancient method: lantern fishing with a bow & arrow. Chicagoans were dipping for smelt along the lakefront, and Mississippians were getting ready to "hand-grab" for catfish...
...machine in the medical room of Dillon Field house is indeed the overpowering object. But scattered there, one finds other objects perhaps as fascinating. Old tennis shoes, scales, rules, pamphlets, a red lantern hanging from a steam pipe, a Zimmer skeletal fracture chart, a sign--"office closed Saturdays and Sundays in summer...
...says, he could light a match at 25 yards with his .22 rifle. Arriving in Korea in January, he wrote home to his mother for a Bible. At night, in the gloom of his bunker, 19-year-old Private Stanley read his Bible by the light of a Coleman lantern; during the day he cleaned the Browning automatic rifle the Army had issued to him. Last week, in his first contact with the enemy, the six-foot Negro put both his religion and his rifle to good...