Word: torches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly after six, two Scholars carry into the room a bottle of sherry each; some 45 minutes later, dinner is served buffet style by the cooks of the Torch Club, which gives up its room for these bi-weekly affairs...
...alternate Wednesday evenings throughout the school year, ten Yale undergraduates and several Faculty members enter Gothic Strathcona Hall, ride the self-service elevator to the fourth floor, and then stride down the corridor to the plush Torch Room. The students are Yale's Scholars of the House; the Faculty are among their advisers...
...missile covering that would withstand extreme heat resulting from air resistance. Other uses under way or planned: ball bearings, piston heads, curtain walls for skyscrapers, bulkheads for nuclear ships. Most convincing demonstration to housewives of Pyroceram's properties: heating pots of it red-hot with an acetylene torch, then plunging them into ice water. Next housewares project: equally tough but fragile appearing tableware styled like costly china...
...Wotch it Chally!" the fireman yelled, just as the torch popped the placard into flames. The other fireman jumped and threw the sign to the ground, where it was stamped to ashes by other men in blue...
...long hot dogs were going great. Duck-tailed farm boys and their girls rode the Ferris wheel for a high-arcing view of the cornfields of home. The talker (spieler) turned them in for 72-year-old Jim Jagger, fire eater ("I will amaze you by rubbing the burning torch over various parts of my body and anatomy"), a tattoo artist and human pincushion. The sword swallower put away a 10-in. blade ("I'll ram it down my bread basket and tickle my belly button"). The geek (lowest operator on the lot, a man who pretends...