Word: vivian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edsel Ford, Board Chairman Roy Dikeman Chapin of Hudson Motor Car Co., and other Grosse Pointe, Mich, socialites (Buhls, Gardners, Geytmrns) have built a $500,000, 608-seat cinema theatre To the opening last week came Radioman Graham McNamee, Actress Elsie Ferguson, Actress Vivian Tobin. Name: "Punch & Judy Theatre," Architect: Robert 0. Derrick, who planned the Ford Museum at Dearborn. Admission on the opening night...
Weak from the shock, Operator Vivian had his burned hands bandaged, went home...
...radios to the benevolent voice of George V, King and Emperor, as he opened the London Naval Parley (TIME, Jan. 27). No Columbia System listener knew then that a good part of the current carrying the imperial voice over that hook-up had passed through the body of Operator Vivian, who was too preoccupied with his tingling task to hear the speech...
...electricians hurried a new connection, rerouted the current in two minutes. Released from the live wire, Vivian's arm stopped its mad, involuntary gesticulation...
...Operator Vivian scooped up the loose ends of wire, held them tightly together in one hand. An arc burned his hand. To close the arc he squeezed harder. The harder he squeezed, the more current leaked into his arm, made it jerk crazily. Had he not been standing on a cork-insulated floor, had he not kept clear of a well-grounded duct a few inches from his foot, the 220-volt current would have killed...