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Through three pictures, the lantern-jawed comic has made calf eyes at dusky Dorothy Lamour. Their effect on the sarongstress has led her to remark: "In Typhoon I had a chimpanzee. In Zanzibar I have Hope." This time he gets her-fully clad, for a change...
Westminster Abbey, Britain's foremost receptacle of memories, had its lantern roof, the central part of the Abbey directly over the crossing of the nave and transept, burned out. Tons of debris fell on the spot where King George VI and Queen Elizabeth-and many monarchs before them-were crowned. The Henry VII Chapel was damaged, but the Unknown Warrior in his tomb and the poets in their Corner were not disturbed...
...first clear picture ever made of a molecule was last week shown on a lantern slide. Some of the ablest U.S. scientists-members of the American Philosophical Society, founded 198 years ago by Benjamin Franklin-gaped in awe, for they were seeing something never before distinctly seen...
...Princeton University recently acquired a fossil of a bat estimated to be over 60,000,000 years old." --Ohio State "Lantern...
...idea current in Washington, however, was that neither side at Allis-Chalmers-union or management-cared passionately about settling the dispute. President of the C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers local which called the walkout is tall, lantern-jawed Harold Christoffel, who has been labeled a Communist fellow traveler. The Socialist Party recommended his expulsion from its ranks in 1938, on that suspicion. Before he had to face the charge (which he denied), Christoffel resigned. He and his supporters rejected a Knudsenhillman formula for settlement of this strike...