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...Lantern. In bombed, defeated Tokyo, five dinner-jacketed musicians in a sweltering dance hall last week struggled through I Can't Begin to Tell You. The saxophone wavered, the drums came in too strong; couples danced slowly and solemnly...
William S. Hart, steely-eyed hero of Hollywood's primordial westerns, was in danger-"likely to be deceived and imposed upon by artful and designing persons," declared an old friend, Francis Gudger. Gudger asked a Los Angeles court to appoint himself and another friend as the lantern-jawed, two-gunman's lawful guardians. William S. Hart Jr. begged to differ; he (and a bank) should get the guardian assignment. While the legalistic bullets whined and sang, the old hero, who admits to 70-odd and is worth about $1,000,000, lay beyond the battle, gravely...
...There's this night differential pay raise of 10? an hour we're asking. Night work's tricky in the yards. Maybe your lantern goes out. Maybe you miss a moving step in the dark. We ought to get more money for that...
Bats in the Bedroom. Author MacDonald lists some of the things she never got used to: the hen; the gasoline lantern; the outhouse at night; no radio; no telephone; "bats hanging upside down in the cellar, flying in the open bedroom windows . . . making my skin undulate in horror"; dropping-boards and chicken lice; wet, cold, soggily miserable winter, "and spring so warm, so lush and fragrant that I wanted to roll on my back and whinny...
...down to painting. He also killed a number of men in drunken street brawls, was once found near-dead himself, with a long dagger in his back. For a whim, he recklessly scaled the dizzy dome of St. Peter's in Rome, and carved his initials on the lantern that had been left there by Michelangelo. Soon after, he was imprisoned by the Inquisition for breaking into a convent and trying to kidnap...