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...were different, too. Much of the change was reflected in the groom's expression. Marriage no longer seemed like one more hurried step in a process calculated to get him out to an island where the Japs could blow his head off. Occasionally a groom still got the spotlight-as last week when Byron ("Whizzer") White, Colorado's All-America Rhodes Scholar and naval hero, married pretty Miss Marion Stearns at Boulder (see MILESTONES). But mostly husbands-to-be could let their knees knock in peace...
With Swegan's hand slowing his hitting down to a weak two hits for nine trips to the plate in this week's games, Bill Fitz stepped into the batting spotlight with a sizzling six hits for eight times at bat Tuesday and Wednesday...
There is no known way to turn infrared light directly into visible light. But it can be done indirectly by a complicated electronic device which closely resembles a television tube. The infra-red rays from the black-shielded spotlight hit the target and are reflected back (see diagram). Entering the telescope, they are focused by lenses on a special screen at the forward end of the tube. This "image" is not itself visible, but it knocks streams of electrons out of the screen...
...spotlight caught the show's two star nudes: blonde Parisienne Nicole Roy, café-au-lait Haitian Fortunia...
...returning men's difficulties of readjustment to college life have here proved little more than a myth. Advance representatives, who re-entered Harvard in the fall, have held high the scholastic standard of the veteran. They have not sought nor wanted pampering. Instead, they have turned back the spotlight of attention to the University and its own readjustment problems...