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...Sodality regarded the serenading of Boston belles as one of its handsomest traditions. Lantern-lit expeditions started from Porter's Tavern in North Cambridge, ended in musical vigils in Brattle Street, Brookline, Jamaica Plain and Beacon Hill. Legend says one session ended in a musical salute to a Harvard president's daughter while she was in labor pains...
...addition to taking precautions for possible air raids, Forbes revealed that the duplication of many valuable, but inflammable X-ray shadowgraphs was continuing, and that Fogg Art Museum had received and placed on exhibition many of the lantern slides, books, and photographs which had been removed from the Germanic Museum on the arrival of the Army Chaplain School last summer...
Died. William Phillips (Cinemactor Tully Marshall), 78, lantern-jawed veteran of Hollywood's silent days; inEncino, Calif. His roles ranged from damp-rotted beachcombers to dyspeptic plutocrats; his biggest hit: as The Covered Wagon's bibulous frontier scout, Jim Bridger...
...retractors (to hold the incision open), bent tablespoons. Oversize rubber gloves encumbered Lipes. After cutting through layers of muscle, he took 20 minutes to find the appendix. "I think I've got it," Lipes finally whispered. "It's curled around the blind gut. . . . More flashlights, another battle lantern...
...related in Chinese folklore that a young peasant girl was asked to carry some wind wrapped in paper and some fire, also wrapped in paper. Her answer was to carry a fan and a lantern...