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Everybody wants a piece of Uncle Sam Lumen, even though he is practically 90. The President of the U.S. is after Sam's famous name for a National Child Center. At the denim end of the political fabric, a band of radical youths known as the Children of Liberty arrogantly demand his support against the Establishment. In between, friends, disciples and devotees strive to keep old Sam buttoned to their own self-interest...
POUND is dead. Picasso is dead. Brakhage is alive and healthy in Hunt Hall tonight. He will show films made within the past two years including The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes, The Riddle of Lumen, The Myth of Phos, and his Sexual Meditation series. An involving, often brilliant conversationalist, Brakhage successfully bridges the experiential gap between his films and their audiences when he verbalizes those personal meanings hiding between the layers of abstraction...
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...faces the biggest boom in its four-year existence (estimated sales for 1942: 40 million tubes). Recently the infant industry's 37-year-old James L. Cox, Hygrade Sylvania Corp. engineer, announced the demise of a technical "bug" that has been lurking in the luminescent tubes: the unpredictable "lumen slump" (blackened end-bands, dark streaks and splotches) that afflicts many lamps. Cox's bug killer: a technique for dosing each lamp with the exact amount of mercury needed for adequate ultraviolet radiation...
Cartoonist Lumen Winter supplies the drawings for the Post series, which was originally turned down by King Features Syndicate. Inventor Gross says he has an unlimited supply of material for his series. Anyone who wants to cash in on one of his notions may do so with his compliments...