Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ordered to improve lighting conditions by the city of Cambridge, the Cambridge Light and Gas Company is now completing installation of 164 new streetlights. Bigger and better is the word on the new globes...
...Frankfurt's Rhein-Main airport, a German girl sits with her G.I. fiancé. He is a slight, blond boy of perhaps 18; she is a blonde, bulging, overbearing, with a broad, white face, narrow, calculating eyes and a smile like the flat glare of an electric light that turns on & off at the touch of a switch. She leans with both elbows on the table and in a loud and domineering voice orders ice cream from the tired German waitress, while the boy follows her movements with a young dog's eyes. Outside, in the lounge...
...Light on Lincoln (Sat. 3:30 p.m., CBS). A CBS Documentary Unit broadcast based on the unsealing (21 years after the death of Robert Todd Lincoln) of Lincoln's state papers. Speakers: Carl Sandburg; Illinois State Historian Jay Monaghan; University of Illinois Professor J. G. Randall; Director of the Chicago Historical Society Paul M. Angle; and Librarian of Congress Luther Evans...
John Betjeman, an Englishman with a Dutch name, is one of the pleasantest minor writers in the world. This book, a selection of his verse and prose, introduces him to the U.S. public. Betjeman (pronounced Betch-man) is minor but not slick; he is, in a very light and quiet way, a serious poet. If laurel wreaths may be awarded for a variety of sane satires and affections, for blandness of style and an ear for delectable rhythms, Betjeman deserves at least a small...
...other poems, apparently as light, readers may find themselves stirred before they know it by nothing more than the spoken clarity and intense local atmosphere of Betjeman's verses. Among his prose pieces are two in which Oxford (Betjeman went to Magdalen College, where his tutor was Author C. S. Lewis) gets the smoothest and most thorough panning of modern times...